Brisbane : squatters, settlers and surveyors / edited by Rod Fisher and Jennifer Harrison.

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Brisbane : Brisbane History Group, 2000.

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21931

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Brisbane History Group papers ; No. 16 2000.

Subject:

History -- Queensland.

Surveys and surveyors -- History -- Queensland.

Local history -- Queensland.

Brisbane (Qld.) -- History.

Contents:

1. Too good a site for a gaol / Colin Sheehan

2. The Brisbane scene in 1842 / Rod Fisher

3. Athenians v. Thebans: Brisbane by Ipswich journalists / Robyn Buchanan

4. The fifty-mile limit / Colin Sheehan

5. Down rode the squatters / Val Donovan

6. Shepherds on the Stanley / Murdoch Wales

7. Simpson's settlers / Jennifer Harrison

8. Andrew Petrie: Father of Brisbane / John Mackenzie-Smith

9. John Williams: merchant adventurer / Helen Gregory

10. Thomas Dowse: Brisbane's Samuel Pepys / Mark Gosling

11. Pioneering surveyors of Moreton Bay District / Roma Draper

12. Surveying early street levels in Brisbane / Evan Richard.

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ISBN:

0958646996

ISSN:

1035-4050

Phys. description:

x, 159 p. : ill. ; 24 cm