Life and death in the age of sail the passage to Australia
"During the nineteenth century approximately 750,000 government-assisted emigrants crossed the world from the United Kingdom to Australia. They traveled about 15,000 miles, usually without stopping en route, sometimes in cramped conditions, occasionally with over 500 people on board. This book...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney : London :
University of New South Wales Press ; Eurospan
2003.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38545482*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 'I never look at the sea without lamenting our dear children': Sickness, health and the voyage in context
- 'The mother will be very unpleasantly situated': Life at sea and at home
- 'Poor Little Alfred was the first that died': The 1820s and 1830s
- 'Both Doctor and Captain was very kind to me': The 1840s
- 'I was never well untill after my confinement': The 1850s
- 'Them as are not clean have no dinner till they are': The 1850s
- 'He never knew One yet that died from seasickness': the 1860s
- 'What a splendid passage we had': The closing decades
- 'We put 14,000 miles between us and home and friends': 1900-1950.
