Stagecoach to Birdsville by Helen Ferber

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with corners now protected with book tape. Insect marks on inside front cover and half-title page. Minor marks on foredges. Previous owner has inscribed inside page.

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.