Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships, 1870-1885Auckland University Press, 2006 - 294 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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Արդյունքներ 4–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
Էջ 43
... larger , redder and more brilliant than usual and it seemed to lead the Carnatic through the night . Later , the moonlight darting about on the water created the impression of fish dancing on the sea . The emergence of the passengers ...
... larger , redder and more brilliant than usual and it seemed to lead the Carnatic through the night . Later , the moonlight darting about on the water created the impression of fish dancing on the sea . The emergence of the passengers ...
Էջ 66
... larger , more hospitable island . And , what must have been the bitterest blow of all , several ships passed by without stopping . Yet the survivors maintained their discipline , divided themselves into six messes and built rough ...
... larger , more hospitable island . And , what must have been the bitterest blow of all , several ships passed by without stopping . Yet the survivors maintained their discipline , divided themselves into six messes and built rough ...
Էջ 121
... larger human conflicts , the small incident was merely the occasion for the outbreak of hostilities . The deeper cause was the tension generated by Anne Vesey , a violent and quarrelsome woman who upset her fellow passengers and ...
... larger human conflicts , the small incident was merely the occasion for the outbreak of hostilities . The deeper cause was the tension generated by Anne Vesey , a violent and quarrelsome woman who upset her fellow passengers and ...
Բովանդակություն
A great wrench at the heart | 16 |
The mountains of the sea | 43 |
A time to every purpose | 73 |
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Agent-General AIML AJHR ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY Alfred Lawrence Alumbagh Anne Vesey Auckland Bebington Bennewith Berar Brodick Castle Buchner bunk cabin captain Cardigan Castle cargo Chile complaints Cospatrick Coughtrey Coughtrey's Cowie crew deck diarists diary disease doctor DRAKE BROCKMAN FAMILY Dunedin Emigrant Emilie Letts epidemic Euterpe evidence Findlayson forecastle Heginbotham Hermione Hillary Hocken Hosking Hunter Ibid immigration commissioners John Julius Vogel Knowsley Hall labour land Loch Gloy London married MARY DOBIE matron mess migrant ships Millen Coughtrey Munro mutiny night Oamaru official Otago Passengers Act Pirie poop Port Chalmers punishment Queen sailors sails saloon scarlet fever second-class Shaw Savill ship's shipboard single women single women's compartment social map steerage steerage passengers surgeon surgeon-superintendent Thorpe took Vesey's violence Vogel voyage washing WELLINGTON wife William Gray wind woman wrote Zealand Herald