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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... described the sun setting across the Atlantic 'like a huge basket of fire' and from the Hermione in 1883 the stormy Southern Ocean looked to Emilie Letts's eye like a range of volcanoes throwing out foamy lava, as white as snow. Taken ...
... described the sun setting across the Atlantic 'like a huge basket of fire' and from the Hermione in 1883 the stormy Southern Ocean looked to Emilie Letts's eye like a range of volcanoes throwing out foamy lava, as white as snow. Taken ...
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... described the sunset, the moon and the 'simply splendid' sea. Then her excitement was blown away by a gust of melancholy. 'How I wish you were all here to enjoy it all with me,' she wrote. 'I cannot forget the dear old home, and the ...
... described the sunset, the moon and the 'simply splendid' sea. Then her excitement was blown away by a gust of melancholy. 'How I wish you were all here to enjoy it all with me,' she wrote. 'I cannot forget the dear old home, and the ...
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... described shipmates with more specific ambitions: to buy farms or to set up in the grocery Once the ship was at sea the difference in status, comfort and privilege between steerage and saloon was large and obvious, but the first hours ...
... described shipmates with more specific ambitions: to buy farms or to set up in the grocery Once the ship was at sea the difference in status, comfort and privilege between steerage and saloon was large and obvious, but the first hours ...
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... described as 'commony' by Bertha Dobie,45 could rub shoulders in the saloon with middle-class military officers, government officials and minor gentry with capital. On both sides of the broad, horizontal boundary of class there were ...
... described as 'commony' by Bertha Dobie,45 could rub shoulders in the saloon with middle-class military officers, government officials and minor gentry with capital. On both sides of the broad, horizontal boundary of class there were ...
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... a reporter from the Daily Southern Cross in Auckland visited the Waitangi in 1874 he described its modern and spacious saloon, furnished in teak with richly gilded mouldings, panels of bird's-eye maple and seats upholstered.
... a reporter from the Daily Southern Cross in Auckland visited the Waitangi in 1874 he described its modern and spacious saloon, furnished in teak with richly gilded mouldings, panels of bird's-eye maple and seats upholstered.
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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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