Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships 1870–1885Auckland University Press, 01 հոկ, 2013 թ. - 240 էջ Drawing upon more than 80 personal diaries and journals of those on board, this resource explores the rich experience and the trials and tribulations of hopeful Anglo-Celtic pilgrims headed to Australia and New Zealand aboard migrant ships in the late 19th century. From daily routines to matters of food, health, religion, crime, and mutiny, this history unearths the humor, scandal, and personal triumph that defined the nautical pilgrimage of hundreds. |
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... Caduceus in 1870 and the Clyde in 1883 distributed free packets of books, papers, periodicals and children's scrapbooks. But sometimes even religion had a price. When two men from the British and Foreign Bible Society came aboard the ...
... Caduceus in 1870 and the Clyde in 1883 distributed free packets of books, papers, periodicals and children's scrapbooks. But sometimes even religion had a price. When two men from the British and Foreign Bible Society came aboard the ...
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... Caduceus was swarming with rats which boldly entered the space in the single women's compartment she occupied with her mother and fourteen-year-old sister Fanny. They were so bad that the women were prepared to give up fresh air to be ...
... Caduceus was swarming with rats which boldly entered the space in the single women's compartment she occupied with her mother and fourteen-year-old sister Fanny. They were so bad that the women were prepared to give up fresh air to be ...
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... Caduceus as they reefed sails, the officers yelling orders, the sailors singing and stamping their feet. She heard the 'ay ay sir' and 'hulloa sir' and when the work was done the cry of 'grog o, grog o' as the men were given something ...
... Caduceus as they reefed sails, the officers yelling orders, the sailors singing and stamping their feet. She heard the 'ay ay sir' and 'hulloa sir' and when the work was done the cry of 'grog o, grog o' as the men were given something ...
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... Caduceus was hit by a terrible storm on the night of 24 February 1871. She would have given everything to be on dry land that night, and her fear was intensified because she was shut up below decks and could see nothing. She heard the ...
... Caduceus was hit by a terrible storm on the night of 24 February 1871. She would have given everything to be on dry land that night, and her fear was intensified because she was shut up below decks and could see nothing. She heard the ...
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... Caduceus on the night Catherine Parnell and her mother cowered below decks. Or they may have been the remnants of a ship that had succumbed. Next day they passed the remains of a ship's boat in the water, which seemed to confirm the ...
... Caduceus on the night Catherine Parnell and her mother cowered below decks. Or they may have been the remnants of a ship that had succumbed. Next day they passed the remains of a ship's boat in the water, which seemed to confirm the ...
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Enemies easily made | |
Disorder crime and punishment | |
Mutinies and Hyde Park meetings | |
The virgins cage | |
Birth death and the doctor | |
Land fever | |
So here ends my journey | |
Bibliography | |
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Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships, 1870-1885 David Hastings Հատվածի դիտում - 2006 |
Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships, 1870-1885 David Hastings Հատվածի դիտում - 2006 |
Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships 1870-1885 David Hastings Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2013 |
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