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Aboriginal Tasmaniansby Lyndall RyanISBN 1863739653 (1-86373-965-3)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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The Adventures of an Emigrant in Van Diemen's Landby William Thornley, John S. MillsISBN 0851795994 (0-85179-599-4)
Hardcover, Rigby
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Banking on Poverty: The Global Impact of the Imf and the World Bankby Jill TorrieISBN 0919946399 (0-919946-39-9)
Softcover, Between the Lines
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Bluebird Cafeby Carmel BirdISBN 081121155X (0-8112-1155-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tigerby Margaret Mittelbach, Michael Crewdson, Alexis RockmanISBN 1400060028 (1-4000-6002-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger'Book summary:Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, authors Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson take off with renowned artist Alexis Rockman on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. This mysterious, striped predator was once the worlds largest carnivorous marsupial. It had a pouch like a kangaroo and a jaw that opened impossibly wide to reveal terrifying choppers. Tragically, this rare and powerful animal was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it?
Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast.
From an ancient cave featuring an aboriginal painting of the tiger to a lab in Sydney where maverick scientists are trying to resurrect the animal through cloning, this intrepid trio comes face-to-face with blood-sucking land leeches and venomous bull ants, a misbehaving wallaby who invades their motel room, and a crew of flesh-eating, bone-crunching Tasmanian devils gorging on roadkill.
They bond with trappers, bushwackers, and wildlife experts who refuse to abandon the tiger hunt, despite the paucity of evidence. Sifting through local myths, bar-room banter, and historical accounts, these environmental detectives sweep readers into a world where platypus swim, kangaroos roam, and a large predator with a pouch wasor perhaps still isqueen of the jungle.
Filled with Alexis Rockmans stunning drawings of flora and fauna-made from soil, wombat scat, and the artists own bloodCarnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world. [via]More editions of Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger:
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tigerby Michael Crewdson, Margaret Mittelbach, Alexis RockmanISBN 0812967690 (0-8129-6769-0)
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Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Livesby Lucy Frost, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish Maxwell StewartISBN 0522849776 (0-522-84977-6)
Softcover, Melbourne Univ Pr
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A Child's Book of True Crimeby Chloe HooperISBN 0743225139 (0-7432-2513-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Convict Probation System: Van Diemen's Land, 1839-1854 a Study of the Probation System of Convict Discipline ..by James Boyd, Charles Joseph Latrobe, Ian Brand, M. N. SprodISBN 0908528205 (0-908528-20-5)
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Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodesby Brian Andrews, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Tasmanian Museum and Art GalleryISBN 0724672427 (0-7246-7242-7)
Hardcover, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
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Death of a River Guideby Richard FlanaganISBN 0802138632 (0-8021-3863-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a River Guide'Book summary:In this brilliant, labyrinthine second novel, a drowning man named Aljaz Cosini is granted visions of his family history stretching into the distant past--even as he revisits his final days along the remote and treacherous Franklin River. Richard Flanagan's protagonist has been away from Tasmania for the last decade. Sick, lonely, and financially strapped, he returns to his hometown and soon runs into an old colleague known as Pig's Breath, who offers him a low-paying stint as a river guide:
I can see that Pig's Breath knows Aljaz well enough to see that Aljaz desperately wants to visit the Franklin River country, that there is a need in him, which Pig's Breath does not have, to go back there, and that this is his only way of doing it. And while Aljaz sits there trying to look as if he is chewing over numbers, Pig's Breath can tell that what he is in fact doing is smelling the river, hearing it run, watching the rain mists rise from its valleys, drinking its tea-coloured waters from his cupped hands.
Flanagan (The Sound of One Hand Clapping) has been compared to Faulkner for his loving attention to place, but his narrative talents are more akin to those of Günter Grass. There are echoes of The Tin Drum in the picaresque tale of Aljaz's emergence from the womb, wrapped in the caul that suggests second sight. Throughout, a series of similarly magical occurrences lends sparkle, if little illumination, to these hardscrabble lives in the Tasmanian wilderness. All of which goes to explain why Death of a River Guide is an unusually rich novel, and one of Australia's most distinguished literary exports in recent years. --Regina Marler [via]
Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the Worldby MudroorooISBN 0947062025 (0-947062-02-5)
Softcover, Hyland House
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Early Tasmania: Papers Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania during the Years 1888 to 1899by Royal Society of Tasmania, James Backhouse WalkerISBN 0724623760 (0-7246-2376-0)
Hardcover, M.C. Reed
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The English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgensonby Sarah BakewellISBN 0701173408 (0-7011-7340-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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English Passengersby Matthew KnealeISBN 038549744X (0-385-49744-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Passengers'Book summary:Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India when he ran full-tilt boogie into the Americas. One of the narrators of Matthew Kneale's ambitious historical novel English Passengers has more modest aspirations: Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy, and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process, he and his crew end up weighing anchor for Australia. Worse, they're forced to carry three temperamental Englishmen bound for Tasmania on a mission to discover the exact location of the Garden of Eden. The year is 1857, and the study of geology is beginning to make serious inroads into areas of religious doctrine. When the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson runs across a scientific treatise that puts the age of Silurian limestone somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand years, he is scandalized: "This was despite the fact that the Bible tells, and with great clarity, that the earth was created a mere six thousand years ago." His many attempts to prove the Bible's accuracy lead, eventually, to a scientific expedition comprising himself, Timothy Renshaw, a dilettante botanist, and Dr. Thomas Potter.
Now jump back 30 years, to 1828, when a revolution of sorts is stirring on the island of Tasmania. Over the years, white settlers have been encroaching on aboriginal land and relations have deteriorated into violence. At the heart of the action is Peevay, a young half-breed abandoned by his aborigine mother, who had been kidnapped and raped by a white escaped convict. Now his vengeful mother is leading a war against the whites, and Peevay, desperate to win her love, has joined her. Chapters from the past narrated by Peevay and augmented by letters and dispatches from white settlers alternate with the sections told by Kewley, Wilson, Renshaw, and Potter. Eventually, of course, the two time lines intersect with momentous results.
War, mutiny, shipwreck, and not a little farce make English Passengers a gripping read, but it is Matthew Kneale's literary ventriloquism that renders it remarkable. In a novel with so many different points of view, the individuality of each voice stands out. There is, for instance, the mutinous Dr. Potter, whose descent into paranoia and egomania results in diary entries reminiscent of a 19th-century psychotic Bridget Jones: "Manxmen = treacherous even to v. last. Self heard Brew (lashed to mainmast as per usual) instructing helmsman to steer N.N.W. When self questioned he re. this he claiming we = carried into Bay of Biscay by difficult sea currents + must set course to avoid Breton Peninsular. He pointing to distant point of land to N.N.E. claiming this = Brittany. Self = doubtful." But perhaps the most compelling voice in English Passengers belongs to Peevay, who paints a vivid picture of aboriginal life in a foreign tongue he nonetheless makes his own:
When we sat so in the dark, after our eating, Tartoyen told us stories--secret stories that I will not say even now--about the moon and sun, and how everyone got made, from men and wallaby to seal and kangaroo rat and so. Also he told who was in those rocks and mountains and stars, and how they went there. Until, by and by, I could hear stories as we walked across the world, and divine how it got so, till I knew the world as if he was some family fellow of mine.
By the close of this epic tale, the world Peevay had known is gone forever and the lives of the Manx sailors and English passengers have been irrevocably changed. Based on real events in Tasmanian history, Matthew Kneale's novel delivers a home truth about Australia's brutal colonial past, even as it conveys the wonder and allure of the age of exploration. --Alix Wilber [via] -
Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840by Alan MooreheadISBN 093518077X (0-935180-77-X)
Softcover, Booklines Hawaii Ltd
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The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840by Alan MooreheadISBN 006015800X (0-06-015800-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Fatal Shoreby Robert HughesISBN 0394753666 (0-394-75366-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Few from Afar: Jewish Lives in Tasmania from 1804by Peter Elias, Ann Elias, Hobart Hebrew Congregation (Hobart, Tas.)ISBN 0646422073 (0-646-42207-3)
Hardcover, Hobart Hebrew Congregation
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For The Term Of His Natural Lifeby Marcus ClarkeISBN 184588082X (1-84588-082-X)
Softcover, Nonsuch Pub
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Gould's Book of Fishby Richard FlanaganISBN 0802139590 (0-8021-3959-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gould's Book of Fish'Book summary:Gould's Book of Fish, an extraordinary work of fact-based fiction by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan (Death of a River Guide) is a journey through the fringe madness of Down Under colonialism. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island prison colony off the Tasmanian coast, the novel plucks a real-life thief and prisoner, English forger William Buelow Gould, from the pages of history to act as protagonist-narrator. Through Gould's unique capacity to blend hyperbole, hyperrealism, and self-effacing honesty, the reader acquires a shockingly clear picture of daily torment on the island. Yet more remarkable is Gould's portrait of bizarre ambitions among prison authorities to further principles of art and science amidst so much misery. Key to such plans is Gould's talent as a painter and illustrator. The compound's surgeon, nursing hopes of publishing a definitive guide to the island's fish, leans heavily on Gould's ability to record the taxonomy of various species. Though Gould accommodates his masters, the manuscript, in his hands, becomes testimony to their perverse dreams of civilization and his own quick-witted survival instincts. Throughout, Flanagan never loses the well-imagined voice of Gould's candor or the character's dense descriptive powers, talents that translate into a thrilling text that reads like a blend of Melville and Burgess. --Tom Keogh [via]
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Governor Arthur's Convict System: Van Diemen's Land 1824-36; a Study in Colonizationby William Douglass ForsythISBN 0424061104 (0-424-06110-4)
Hardcover, Sydney University Press
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The High Flyerby Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 0330333852 (0-330-33385-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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His Natural Lifeby Marcus ClarkeISBN 0140430512 (0-14-043051-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The History of Tasmaniaby John WestISBN 0207121060 (0-207-12106-0)
Hardcover, Angus and Robertson. Published in association with the Royal Australia Historical Society
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The Hunterby Julia LeighISBN 1568581696 (1-56858-169-6)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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In Tasmaniaby Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 1585677205 (1-58567-720-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth: Commandant of Port Arthur Penal Settlementby Dora Heard, Charles O'Hara BoothISBN 0909479119 (0-909479-11-9)
Hardcover, Tasmanian Historical Research Association
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Kate Weindorfer: The Woman behind the Man and the Mountain a Biography of Kate Julia Weindorfer Wife of Cradle Mountain Pioneer, Gustav Weindorferby Sally SchnackenbergISBN 0949457914 (0-949457-91-4)
Hardcover, Regal Publications
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Lake Pedder:Why a National Park Must Be Saved: Why a National Park Must Be Savedby Dick JohnsonISBN 0959901809 (0-9599018-0-9)
Hardcover, Lake Pedder Action Committees of Victoria and Tasmania and the Australian Union of Students
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The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacineby Robert PaddleISBN 0521782198 (0-521-78219-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Legacyby Nevil ShuteISBN 0688019773 (0-688-01977-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Lonely Planet Tasmaniaby John Chapman, Monica Chapman, Lyn McGaurrISBN 0864427271 (0-86442-727-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Tasmaniaby Paul SmitzISBN 1740592301 (1-74059-230-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Pack of Thieves: 52 Port Arthur Livesby Susan Hood, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Port Arthur Historic Site Management AuthorityISBN 095793940X (0-9579394-0-X)
Hardcover, Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
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The Potato Factory: Library Editionby Bryce CourtenayISBN 0855616539 (0-85561-653-9)
Hardcover, W.H.A.
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The Rainbow and the Roseby Nevil ShuteISBN 1842322834 (1-84232-283-4)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Rivermanby Allan BaillieISBN 0140341935 (0-14-034193-5)
Hardcover, Puffin
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The Road To Mccarthy: Around The World In Search Of Irelandby Pete McCarthyISBN 0007162138 (0-00-716213-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sam Thomas and His Neighbours, and Their Part in the Development of Port Sorell, Latrobe and Devonportby Harold Arthur Rhys ThomasISBN 0959738207 (0-9597382-0-7)
Hardcover, [H. A. R. Thomas]
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The Savage Crowsby Robert DreweISBN 0002215896 (0-00-221589-6)
Hardcover, Collins
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The Secret of Lost Things: Library Editionby Sheridan HayISBN 038551848X (0-385-51848-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Short History of Tasmaniaby Lloyd Robson, Michael RoeISBN 0195541995 (0-19-554199-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Sir George Arthur, Bart., 1784-1854: Superintendent of British Honduras, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land and of Upper Canada, Governor of the Bombay Presidencyby A. G. L. ShawISBN 0522841953 (0-522-84195-3)
Hardcover, Melbourne University Press
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A Slave to Duty: A Portrait Sketch of Sir George Arthur, Bart, PC, KCHby S.W. JackmanISBN 0725602228 (0-7256-0222-8)
Hardcover, Hawthorn Press
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The Sound of One Hand Clappingby Richard FlanaganISBN 0802137849 (0-8021-3784-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Spooling Through: An Irreverent Memoirby Tim BowdenISBN 1741144574 (1-74114-457-4)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Stripes Of The Sidestep Wolfby Sonya HartnettISBN 0763626449 (0-7636-2644-9)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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Tasmanian Devil: A Unique And Threatened Animalby David Pemberton, Not AvailableISBN 1741143683 (1-74114-368-3)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Tasmanian Tiger: A Lesson to Be Learntby David Maguire, Philippe Godard, Eric R. GuilerISBN 0958579105 (0-9585791-0-5)
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Tasmanian Tiger: The Tragic Tale of How the World Lost Its Most Mysterious Predatorby David OwenISBN 0801882605 (0-8018-8260-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Thylacine: The Tragic Tale of the Tasmanian Tigerby David OwenISBN 1865087580 (1-86508-758-0)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Tiger Tales : Stories of the Tasmanian Tigerby Colin BaileyISBN 0732269253 (0-7322-6925-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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A Time to Care: Tasmania's Endangered Wildernessby Chris Bell, Norm SandersISBN 0959475400 (0-9594754-0-0)
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A Town Like Aliceby Nevil ShuteISBN 1842323008 (1-84232-300-8)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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