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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... clear that whatever the New Zealand migration lacked in numbers it more than made up for in distance. The New Zealand migrants had to travel much further than those crossing the Atlantic, a voyage which took about four weeks in a ...
... clear that whatever the New Zealand migration lacked in numbers it more than made up for in distance. The New Zealand migrants had to travel much further than those crossing the Atlantic, a voyage which took about four weeks in a ...
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... clear division in their lives between the old world and the new. For most there was no going back and for three months these landlubbers lived in an exotic maritime limbo full of unfamiliar sights, sounds and customs and with its own ...
... clear division in their lives between the old world and the new. For most there was no going back and for three months these landlubbers lived in an exotic maritime limbo full of unfamiliar sights, sounds and customs and with its own ...
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... clear from their provenance or internal evidence where a further fifteen diaries were written. The men certainly outnumber the women, by 58 diaries to 24. Although this is a significant bias, the women's diaries still represent a fair ...
... clear from their provenance or internal evidence where a further fifteen diaries were written. The men certainly outnumber the women, by 58 diaries to 24. Although this is a significant bias, the women's diaries still represent a fair ...
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... breakfast they had to wash down the decks and afterwards they set about making the ship ready for sea. Although Munro's recollections of the crew and the ship seem clear and precise, he left no impression of the migrants. As an old sea.
... breakfast they had to wash down the decks and afterwards they set about making the ship ready for sea. Although Munro's recollections of the crew and the ship seem clear and precise, he left no impression of the migrants. As an old sea.
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... clear on his duties: to make sure nothing went wrong and especially to make sure there was no smoking or striking of matches below deck. The job had its compensations. 'It was a beautiful night,' wrote Johnson. 'I was watching the ...
... clear on his duties: to make sure nothing went wrong and especially to make sure there was no smoking or striking of matches below deck. The job had its compensations. 'It was a beautiful night,' wrote Johnson. 'I was watching 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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