Cyclone by Hector Holthouse

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Stamps on imprint page. Borrower card pocket and partial date due slip on back endpage. Dust jack is in very good condition with only light wear.

Cyclone by Hector Holthouse tells of the monstrous elemental force that rages out of the Pacific and Coral Sea to smash against the coasts of eastern Australia.

Tragedies include the 1875 wreck of the Gothenburg and the 1899 destruction of a pearling fleet with 307 lives lost. Cyclone Sigma in 1896 tore a trail of destruction from Townsville to Brisbane, only three years after Brisbane had suffered a storm so great that it broke the banks of the Brisbane River, causing flooding.