The Voyage Out: 100 Years of Sea Travel to Australia edited by Bryce Moore, Helen Garwood and Nancy Lutton

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has wear to edges and is now enclosed in protective cover. Interior and binding are still excellent.

The European colonisation of Australia was a massive sea-borne invasion. Hundreds of thousands of settlers travelled halfway around the world to make a life for themselves in the new colonies. Some travelled with large cargoes of goods and entourages of servants, others with little more than the clothes on their backs. Some suffered appalling privations; others relished the adventure of a lifetime.

The Voyage Out presents a fascinating and richly diverse collection of first-hand accounts of sea voyages, drawn from diaries and letters and illustrated with contemporary paintings, drawings and photographs. It covers more than a century of passenger travel by sea, from wooden sailing ships to the majestic ocean liners of the twentieth century.

The Voyage Out recreates a bygone age of sail and steam, when the seas were the only highways to Australia; an important part of the history of a nation largely populated by immigrants. (book flap)