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A Vacation Tour at the Antipodes Through Victoria,Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand in 1861-1862
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Written in 1863 by Benjamin Arthur Heywood, this book describes the author's tour in 1861-1862 through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand ...
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Australasiatic Reminiscences of Twenty-three Years' Wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias
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'Australasiatic Reminisceanes' was written by Daniel Bruce in 1875 as an account of twenty three years spent in 'wanderings' in Tasmania and throughout Australia
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Australia and New Zealand
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An 1873 of tour of Australia by Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect.
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Australian Cyclopedias Compendium Set
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The Australian Cyclopedias are an incredibly important resource for all historians researching Australian history, but just what are they, and what do they contain ...
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Bush Tramways and Private Railways of Tasmania: Circa 1850 to 1960
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The metallic hiss, scents of burning wood and dusty coal, billowy steam, the bitter-sweet smell of men as they toil was part of the scene which coloured the bush tramways ...
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Country Houses of Tasmania: Behind the Closed Doors of our Finest Private Colonial Estates
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A glorious pictorial celebration of Tasmania's finest private residences ...
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Cyclopedia of Tasmania 1900
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Our Price: AU$54.50
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The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a significant resource of historical and biographical information.
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Deane Index Re-Indexed 1823-1840
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Miss Mathilde E. Deane, working at the Public Record Office in London in 1929-1930, compiled an index (sometimes referred to as The Settlers' Letter Index) to miscellaneous letters ...
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Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Dieman's Land 1830-33
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The Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Diemans Land was written by Lieut. Breton, R. N. It was published to give people who were considering settling in the Australian colonies a realistic and practical view of what the colonies were like ...
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Experience of Forty Years in Tasmania
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This book consists of a speech written by Hugh M. Hull and read in England in 1859 regarding the prosperity and nature of the Tasmania, the aim of which was ...
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Exploring the South Land: Tasmania Emerges from Terra Australis Incognita
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This book documents, by means of a sequence of historical maps, the emergence of knowledge over 400 years from the time that the navigators began probing south, until the current outline of Tasmania ...
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Gold!: The Fever That Forever Changed Australia
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Australia's incredible gold rushes of the mid to late-1800s produced tremendous wealth and ensured the financial survival of the struggling Australian colonies. Not only that, but they also tripled the country's small population. David Hill relates the people and events of this monumental turning point in Australia's history ...
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Guide to Tasmania the Premier Health Resort 1913
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This guide provides the reader with an accommodation directory of Hobart, Launceston and their surrounds. Places on the west coast, as well as those on the Western Line are also covered. Information is included on caves, rivers and lakes, hotels, railway lines, and more.
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Handbook to the Colony of Tasmania 1858
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Published as a guide for potential emigrants, this small, but very useful book tells the history and current state (as at 1858) of the colony very concisely ...
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In Tasmania
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A brilliant account of two hundred years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.p Tasmania is famous for its dark ...
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Jubilee History of Tasmania
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Produced in 1887 as a Jubilee souvenir, these two volumes total almost 1000 pages, of historical information, photographs, sketches, and hundreds of biographies ...
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Penal Peninsula: Port Arthur and its Outstations 1827-1898
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The result of 5 years research, this book gives the history of Port Arthur and it's outstations on Forestier's and Tasman's Peninsulas. It draws on documents and reports of the ...
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Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour 1822-1833: An Outline of its History
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The Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour recalls the first discovery and settlement of Macquarie Harbour in particular, Sarah Island. First used to house the convict rogues of Hobart ...
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Tasmanian Cyclopedia 1931
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List price AU$39.50
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This second Tasmanian Cyclopedia is a wide ranging historical and biographical overview of the state in 1931 - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and more.
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Tasmanian Cyclopedia 1931 (original)
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Our Price: AU$225.00
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This second Tasmanian Cyclopedia is a wide ranging historical and biographical overview of the state in 1931 - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and more.
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The Bay Whalers: Tasmania's Shore-Based Whaling Industry
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The history of European settlement in Australia is closely linked with the development of primary industries such as whaling. The killing of whales for their oil and baleen ...
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The Vandiemonians: From Penal Settlements to Marvellous Melbourne
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Relying on contemporary evidence about the development of Australian white settlement, from Port Jackson to Van Diemen's Land and the colonisation of Victoria, 'The Vandiemonians' follows the lives ...
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The West Tamar People: The Story of the Early Settlement and its Well-Established Families
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Story of the first abortive West Tamar settlement, merging the history of convicts and free settlers whose descendants are still in the area. Describes encounters with aborigines, bushrangers, the Beaconsfield ...
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Tourists' Guide to Tasmania 1899
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This is a useful book for finding out information on tourist destinations around Tasmania in 1899. Complete with a detailed map, numerous photographs, and many advertisements.
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Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island
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The Palawa community of Tasmania is mostly descended from the Aboriginal Tasmanian women who sealers took to the Bass Strait Islands in the early 19th century. But few people know that sealers also took Tasmanian women to Kangaroo Island ... this book is their story ...
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Van Diemen's Land
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Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. This is a book filled with new facts about one of the most dramatic episodes in British colonialism ...
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Victoria and Tasmania
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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From an 1873 of tour of Australia by Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect.
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