Add this copy of Brisbane's Forgotten Founder. Sir Evan Mackenzie of to cart. $73.65, like new condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1992 by Brisbane History Group.
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Fine. 8vo. x, 244pp, index, bibliography, maps, bw ills. Or card covers with integral (French) flaps. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies of which this #196. An insight into the life and time of Evan MacKenzie of Kilcoy (1816-1883). Includes founding of Kilcoy Station in 1841; poisoning of local aborigines; formation of North and South Brisbane in the early 1840s; establishing Brisbane's first industrial enterprise at Kangaroo Point; rescuing the early pastoral industry from disaster and taking on the southern mercantile establishment.