Author: Michael HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648094517
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Tasmania's Vanishing Towns
Author: Michael HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648094517
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Tasmania's Vanishing Towns Not What They Used To Be
Author: Michael John HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648094548
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Tasmania is Australia's most decentralised State in terms of population living beyond the capital city. There is 'history and heritage' everywhere...around every corner. In many places there remain numerous buildings particularly sandstone buildings and other relics of times past. Many communities still exist in relative isolation even today. but there is more. According to ancestry organisation websites "Based on the records, demographics, birth rates, census data and immigration patterns, the sites estimated 22 per cent of living Australians had a convict ancestor." Around 50% of early convicts arrived via Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania. In other words about 11 per cent of living Australians [or around 5 million] have a Tasmanian family history connection. Tasmania's Vanishing Towns describes hundreds of towns, villages, communities and is deal for the real or virtual traveller to Tasmania. easy to read, comprehensive yet concise with hundreds of illustrations.
Tasmania's Vanishing Towns Calendar
Author: Michael HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648094524
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
"Contains images carefully selected from hundreds of similar images included in the recently released book Tasmania's Vanishing Towns: Not what they used to be."--Map Centre website.
Vanishing Towns
Author: Michael HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780992551353
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is a true story of life and love in some of the wildest and most isolated places on earth - the lightstations of Bass Strait and Tasmania. Before their automation, Australia's remote island and onshore lights were manned by lightkeepers and their families. Foul weather, misadventure and supply problems were offset by incredible natural beauty, camaraderie and a unique lifestyle that no longer exists in the modern world. Covering twenty-two years from 1967 to 1989 and touching upon six lightstations and nine lighthouses Living with Jezebel takes us from the age of kerosene lamps to solar power, providing historical insight as well as a rollicking good yarn of one family'slife of adventure, love, heartbreak and endurance.Marlene Levings (née Harper) was born into a large, boisterous Launceston family in 1933. In 1964 she met the love of her life, Allen Levings. They married in 1967 and began a life on remote Tasmanian lightstations. Two children and many adventures later, Marlene was appointed light keeper on King Island. Following retirement from the service in 1989, Marlene and Allen moved to Swansea, Tasmania, where Marlene still lives today.
Vanishing Towns TASMANIA'S GHOST TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS
Author: Michael HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648094562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Tasmania is a fascinating and mysterious place so rich in history you can literally 'touch it'. With over 500 mountains, hundreds of valleys, thousands of lakes and rivers and a rugged indented coastline of about 1,000 kilometres it is no surprise many isolated communities evolved, living almost completely shut off from the outside world-even today, Vanishing Towns Tasmania's Ghost Towns and Settlements is about communities. Hundreds of communities for various reasons formed but no longer exist, others are a shadow of their former selves, and some only ever existed on paper. The result is the first comprehensive record of Tasmania's many ghost towns and settlements. Each town or settlement has been included and categorised following a rigorous examination of a broad range of evidence including etchings, photographs, general maps, proclamations, town maps, Nomenclature Board records and contemporary references, particularly newspapers.
The History of Tasmania
Author: John WestPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732651304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The History of Tasmania by John West
Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser
Author: Statutes of Tasmania
Author: Tasmania. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The Tasmanian Royal Kalendar, Colonial Register, and Almanack
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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