100 Maritime Stories. Brisbane River 1823-2023

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 369 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: To commemorate the 200 years since the exploring and naming of the Brisbane River by John Oxley in 1823, David Jones has compiled 100 maritime stories of Queensland. The book is in seven sections covering the early days, colonial era, shipwrecks, wartime and others. Australias First Nations people lived in and around the Brisbane River for thousands of years. Though they did not have a name for the entire river, sections of the river were called Meanjin, Maiwar and Toowong. Other names have been lost over time. Similarly, the Brisbane River was broken up into reaches by the new arrivals. They include Hamilton Reach, Bulimba Reach, Humbug Reach, Shafston Reach, Town Reach and others. The first Europeans to discover the Brisbane River was documented by Thomas Welsby in The Discoverers of the Brisbane River, published in 1913. He states that Richard Parsons, Thomas Pamphlet and John Finnegan were the original discoverers though John Oxley gave them no credit for this. In 200 years the river has been the backbone of the city of Brisbane. Today it is used for trade, tourism, transport, pleasure and Brisbanes water supply.

ISBN: 9781922643537