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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... sailing ship. More importantly, although the migration flow was a trickle compared with North America's, to New Zealand it was a population tsunami. Vogel's large measures ushered in a 15-year period during which 169,000 people migrated ...
... sailing ship. More importantly, although the migration flow was a trickle compared with North America's, to New Zealand it was a population tsunami. Vogel's large measures ushered in a 15-year period during which 169,000 people migrated ...
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... sailing ships.8 The average duration of each voyage was 96 days, three times as long as it took to cross the ... sail reached its zenith in the form of the clipper ship, it was first challenged and then eclipsed by the age of steam. At ...
... sailing ships.8 The average duration of each voyage was 96 days, three times as long as it took to cross the ... sail reached its zenith in the form of the clipper ship, it was first challenged and then eclipsed by the age of steam. At ...
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... sailing ship faster than any steamer.10 This period also brought about a great transformation in the shipping companies that specialised in the New Zealand trade. It had been a crowded field in the 1850s and 1860s, with at least six ...
... sailing ship faster than any steamer.10 This period also brought about a great transformation in the shipping companies that specialised in the New Zealand trade. It had been a crowded field in the 1850s and 1860s, with at least six ...
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... sail because contrary winds could delay a ship for days within sight of its destination. Competition was fierce, against other sailing ships as well as steam, and speed was the decisive factor. In response Brett received so much ...
... sail because contrary winds could delay a ship for days within sight of its destination. Competition was fierce, against other sailing ships as well as steam, and speed was the decisive factor. In response Brett received so much ...
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... sail.16 The heroic Macnab, also a speed demon, turned out to be a character invented by Munro presumably for literary effect and to hide the more prosaic qualities of the real skipper, a former ship's carpenter called Kerr. The low ...
... sail.16 The heroic Macnab, also a speed demon, turned out to be a character invented by Munro presumably for literary effect and to hide the more prosaic qualities of the real skipper, a former ship's carpenter called Kerr. The low ...
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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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