Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minimal edgewear. Dust jacket and foredges is covered in foxing.

Full title: In Time for Lunch: The Personal Diary and the Official Journal of Douglas E Darbyshire, Surgeon-in-Charge of the Young Women Emigrants Sailing in the SS Cornwall from England to Australia. 1898 by Douglas E Darbyshire edited by B R Coffey

In 1898 Douglas E Darbyshire was appointed Surgeon-in-Charge of a group of forty-six young women emigrants to Western Australia. During the fifty-day voyage, Darbyshire kept both an official journal and a personal diary.