Cane Barracks Story, The: The Cane Pioneers and their Epic Jungle Sagas

Eugenie Navarre

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ARCHITECTURE. ix, 109 p. : ill. ports. ; 30 cm. #011121

The barracks book is the history of cane barracks between Mossman and Ingham, narrated by the colourful characters who were the essence and energy of barrack culture and folklore. Cane barracks remain the most characteristic and enduring example of Tropical North Queensland architecture. Hundreds of these original structures have been lost to cyclone, flood, fire and time; others miraculously have endured, a handful from the 1890s, to bring an historic insight and hand era nostalgia to this fast moving modern NQ tourist oriented 21st century.

Architecture, Tropical — Queensland — History.  |  Architecture — Queensland — History.  |  Sugar workers — Queensland — History.  |  Migrant agricultural laborers — Housing — History.  |  Migrant agricultural laborers — Queensland — History.  |  Sugarcane industry — Queensland — Social conditions.  |  Sugarcane industry — Queensland — Economic conditions.

Additional Information

AuthorEugenie Navarre
Number of pagesix, 109 p. : ill. ports. ; 30 cm.
PublisherInteractive Publications
Year Published2008
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

Near Fine

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