Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships, 1870-1885Drawing 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. |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 40–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
Էջ 175
5 The cage was defined in the documents that laid out the rules of shipboard life : the charter parties that set the conditions under which the government hired the ships ; official instructions to the captains , surgeons and matrons ...
5 The cage was defined in the documents that laid out the rules of shipboard life : the charter parties that set the conditions under which the government hired the ships ; official instructions to the captains , surgeons and matrons ...
Էջ 176
The rules were often enforced with a zeal bordering on obsession . For instance , the captain of the Oamaru in 1876 was so strict he would not allow one of the single women to help her father with her siblings after her mother had given ...
The rules were often enforced with a zeal bordering on obsession . For instance , the captain of the Oamaru in 1876 was so strict he would not allow one of the single women to help her father with her siblings after her mother had given ...
Էջ 187
Yet there were plenty of examples of humane and generous captains , surgeons and matrons who would bend the rules to make ... For instance , in the tropics they would often disregard the rule that said the single women had to be in the ...
Yet there were plenty of examples of humane and generous captains , surgeons and matrons who would bend the rules to make ... For instance , in the tropics they would often disregard the rule that said the single women had to be in the ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Բովանդակություն
A great wrench at the heart | 16 |
The mountains of the sea | 43 |
A time to every purpose | 73 |
Հեղինակային իրավունք | |
9 այլ բաժինները չեն ցուցադրվում
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships 1870–1885 David Hastings Մասամբ դիտվող - 2013 |
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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
Բիբլիոգրաֆիական տվյալներ
| Վերնագիր | Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships, 1870-1885 |
| Հեղինակ | David Hastings |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Հրատարակիչ | Auckland University Press, 2006 |
| Original from | Միչիգանի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 12 Սեպտեմբեր 2008 |
| ISBN | 1869403754, 9781869403751 |
| Length | 294 էջ |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |