Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Edgewear. Ex library with stamps and stickers. Slight damage to book cover where spine label has been removed.

When in 1893 German immigrant Dr Edward Hoche was appointed medical officer in Birdsville Queensland, there was only one way to get there: he and his family made the six day journey through the December heat by stagecoach and buggy. They had been told to expect a little house made of corrugated iron. Nobody had told them about the typhoid epidemic.

Through original letters and research, Helen Ferber has crafted a vivid account of the Hoche's and their extended family in Australia and Germany.