Life and Death in the Age of Sail: The Passage to Australia by Robin Haines

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with stamps and date due slip. No external stickers. General edgewear to book and dust jacket. Book is clean and binding tight.

Throughout the 19th Century, about 750,000 government-assisted emigrants crossed the world from the United Kingdom to Australia. This evocative book looks at the experience of emigrants in steerage and those charged with their care, on the passage to Australia.