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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... rules with its own regulations and specific instructions to captains, surgeons and matrons on how to compel obedience. Given that the migrants lived under such a tight disciplinary regime at sea, it may seem that their experience has ...
... rules with its own regulations and specific instructions to captains, surgeons and matrons on how to compel obedience. Given that the migrants lived under such a tight disciplinary regime at sea, it may seem that their experience has ...
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... rule. Usually the ships were not ready when the passengers arrived; the carpenters were still at work and there was cargo strewn about the deck.30 The result could be chaos when an influx of bewildered migrants, trailing friends ...
... rule. Usually the ships were not ready when the passengers arrived; the carpenters were still at work and there was cargo strewn about the deck.30 The result could be chaos when an influx of bewildered migrants, trailing friends ...
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... rule, stores being hurried on board at the last moment and tumbled into the vessel in such a manner as to render it impossible to keep a check or arrange them so as to give ready access during the voyage'.38 But not everything was ...
... rule, stores being hurried on board at the last moment and tumbled into the vessel in such a manner as to render it impossible to keep a check or arrange them so as to give ready access during the voyage'.38 But not everything was ...
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... rules and routines of shipboard life were supposed to keep order and minimise the influence of impatient and volatile people, but the plans did not always work as they were supposed to. Notes 1 Munro, pp. 4–5. 2 The following account is ...
... rules and routines of shipboard life were supposed to keep order and minimise the influence of impatient and volatile people, but the plans did not always work as they were supposed to. Notes 1 Munro, pp. 4–5. 2 The following account is ...
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... rules, of course, could not prevent the sailors playing tricks to make fools of gullible passengers. One favourite was to stick a thread or hair on the bottom of a glass and claim it was the equator. Another was to persuade them that ...
... rules, of course, could not prevent the sailors playing tricks to make fools of gullible passengers. One favourite was to stick a thread or hair on the bottom of a glass and claim it was the equator. Another was to persuade them that ...
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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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