This collection of essays considers the contribution made by German settlers in Queensland over
the last century and a half of the state's history. The volume also analyses the role of other
German travellers and visitors who have had an impact on the state. Over this period Germans
have been the most important non-British European settler population in Queensland. The work
includes chapters on Germans in politics science music and the other arts as well as German
migrants missionaries and attitudes to the Australian tropics.
