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Tasmania Books
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The Survivors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.76 — 112,271 ratings — published 2020
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,647 ratings — published 1997
English Passengers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,708 ratings — published 2000
Limberlost (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,790 ratings — published 2022
Bruny (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,674 ratings — published 2019
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,976 ratings — published 1997
Dusk (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,523 ratings — published 2024
Death of a River Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,018 ratings — published 1994
Flames (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,466 ratings — published 2018
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.04 — 65,044 ratings — published 2013
The Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,492 ratings — published 1999
Van Diemen's Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.19 — 346 ratings — published 2008
In Tasmania (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.61 — 377 ratings — published 2004
Past the Shallows (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,192 ratings — published 2011
Wanting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,141 ratings — published 2008
Into the Woods: the Battle for Tasmania's Forests (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.23 — 233 ratings — published 2010
The Exiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.15 — 67,109 ratings — published 2020
The Bluffs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,833 ratings — published 2020
Bay of Fires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.09 — 614 ratings — published 2013
For the Term of His Natural Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,189 ratings — published 1874
The Potato Factory (The Potato Factory, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,508 ratings — published 1995
When the Night Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,936 ratings — published 2014
Question 7 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,188 ratings — published 2023
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 9 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,420 ratings — published 2022
The Octopus and I (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,505 ratings — published 2020
The World Beneath (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.51 — 931 ratings — published 2009
Into That Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,693 ratings — published 2012
A Great Act of Love: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,538 ratings — published 2025
Truganini (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.13 — 858 ratings — published 2020
Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.72 — 126 ratings — published
The Alphabet of Light and Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.52 — 193 ratings — published 2003
Wildflower Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,821 ratings — published 2010
A Child's Book of True Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tasmania)
avg rating 2.97 — 801 ratings — published 2002
The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.19 — 166 ratings — published 2014
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,831 ratings — published 2020
The Rain Heron (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,438 ratings — published 2020
Wintering (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.54 — 536 ratings — published 2018
Bridget Crack (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.36 — 364 ratings — published 2017
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,857 ratings — published 2016
Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.03 — 38 ratings — published 2015
Tasmania's Convicts: How Felons Built a Free Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.77 — 47 ratings — published 2010
The Deep (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,995 ratings — published 2021
Smokehouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.19 — 509 ratings — published 2021
Vanishing Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.59 — 785 ratings — published 2020
The Orchardist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.71 — 940 ratings — published 2019
The Lightkeeper's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,771 ratings — published 2011
The Peaks of Lyell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published 1967
The Roving Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 3.65 — 450 ratings — published 2011
Tasmanian Aborigines, A History Since 1803 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.22 — 72 ratings — published 2012
King of the Wilderness: The Life of Deny King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tasmania)
avg rating 4.12 — 197 ratings — published 2001
“The few survivors were hounded into an evangelical concentration camp, where well-meaning but not particularly open-minded missionaries tried to indoctrinate them in the ways of the modern world. The Tasmanians were instructed in reading and writing, Christianity and various ‘productive skills’ such as sewing clothes and farming. But they refused to learn. They became ever more melancholic, stopped having children, lost all interest in life, and finally chose the only escape route from the modern world of science and progress – death.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. For him his dress, his deportment was no different than staying downwind in the shadows of trees when hunting, blending into the world of those he hunted, rather than standing out from it. Once he had excelled at the emu dance & the kangaroo dance; then his talent led him to the whitefella dance, only now no-one was left of his tribe to stand around the fire & laugh & praise his talent for observation & stealthy imitation.
The whites have no law, he told Capois Death, no dreaming. Their way of life made no sense whatsoever. Still, he did not hate them or despise them. They were stupid beyond belief, but they had a power, & somehow their stupidity & their power were, in Tracker Marks’s mind, inextricably connected. But how? he asked Capois Death. How can power & ignorance sleep together? Questions to which Capois Death had no answer.”
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The whites have no law, he told Capois Death, no dreaming. Their way of life made no sense whatsoever. Still, he did not hate them or despise them. They were stupid beyond belief, but they had a power, & somehow their stupidity & their power were, in Tracker Marks’s mind, inextricably connected. But how? he asked Capois Death. How can power & ignorance sleep together? Questions to which Capois Death had no answer.”
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