Year of Disaster: Brisbane 1864

Three major fires, a flood, a cyclone and an outbreak of typoid. To fight fire, there were buckets, chains and puddles. To fight disease, there was a quarantine system relying on ships' doctors and captains, who knew that infection whould doom them to weeks under canvas on an island in Moreton Bay. To fight the food, there were only government loans and hope ...

• | Author: Duncan Richardson
• | Publisher: Lulu.com
• | Publication Date: Apr 16, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1326884387
• | ISBN-13: 9781326884383