The Cane Barracks Story (EasyRead Edition) - Softcover

Navarre, Eugenie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442970952 ISBN 13: 9781442970953

Verlag: Readhowyouwant, 2009

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Cane barracks are a characteristic building of the pre-industrial cane farming landscape. Their significance lies in their social value as they have an important association with migration and settlement patterns in coastal Australia from northern NSW to Far North Queensland.The cane barracks provided temporary accommodation for cane gangs of six to twelve men and a cook, who were employed on a contracted basis during the cane cutting season. These men, and their families, came from many countries to Australia to work in the cane fields. Many of them choosing to settle in Queensland's sugar regions, providing the basis for the rich multicultural communities that exist today.Despite their significance there has been little research on cane barracks and sadly they are rapidly disappearing from our landscape. Not only does this publication document one of Queensland/the Sugar Industry's icons it also triggers awareness of the social, economic and cultural issues faced by regional Queenslanders due to the changes to the sugar industry.----John Waldron

Biografía del autor:

Eugenie Navarre is a writer with a passion for the colourful and different personalities who made a positive contribution to the Planet and little known outback places. A rural upbringing at a whistlestop township, Macalister in S.E. Queensland, a journalism cadetship with Queensland Country Life newspaper and a degree in Journalism from Queensland University provided the essentials for the challenge of documenting the iconic cane barracks and folklore stories of pioneers whose epic feats tamed a wilderness wonderland. Eugenie Navarre has lived at Trinity Beach since 1977. She works as a freelance journalist for magazines and newspapers. The animal rights activist, environmentalist and gypsy wanderer' has two adult children and a ninety-four year old mother who still runs her own grain grazing property. Eugenie Navarre has worked for Queensland Homes magazine for the last 15 years as a journalist specialising in the architecture of North Queensland.

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• Verlag: Readhowyouwant
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1442970952
• ISBN 13: 9781442970953
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204