A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment, especially those in 1893, 1974 and 2011.
Margaret Cook holds a PhD in history from The University of
Queensland. She is a member of the Professional Historians
Association, has a significant body of work in environmental and
social history and heritage conservation, and has worked in
cultural tourism and the museum sector. Margaret is a Research
Fellow at the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, and
an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University. Margaret lives
in Ipswich with her husband and two sons.
A River with a City Problem was shortlisted for the Scholarly
Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the Educational Publishing Awards,
and for The Courier-Mail's People's Choice Queensland Book of the
Year Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.
www.margaretcookhistorian.com.au
'An engrossing account of the complex relationship between a river and the cities that grew up around it.' Nick Earls'Margaret Cook establishes, beyond doubt, that Brisbane will flood again and demonstrates that successive state governments have never had the courage to ban development on the floodplain.' Peter Spearritt
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