The Tasmanian Handbook was published specifically for the use of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science who were visiting Tasmania. It therefore contains an extensive amount of general and scientific information on Tasmania.
Included in the book are sections on the geographical, educational, scientific, and commercial aspects of Tasmania, covering chapters on the flora and fauna, mining, aboriginals, museums, agriculture, irrigation, health, infrastructure and government. There are several photos and illustrations scattered throughout the book.
This book is useful to those interested in early Tasmanian history and environment.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book
Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
