Rights of passage : emigration to Australia in the nineteenth century / Helen R. Woolcock
London ; New York : Tavistock Publications, 1986. First Edition. Peter Porter's TLS review copy. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-dulled and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #395876
ISBN: 042260240X
Physical description; xviii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-366). Contents; Government policy -- Emigration and immigration -- Shipping organizations -- Passenger arrangements -- Surgeons -- Crews -- Life at sea -- Morbidity -- Patterns of birth and death -- Healthy immigrants? Subjects; 1800-1899. 19th century. Emigration and Immigration. History Voyages and travels. Steamboats History 19th century.
Price: €25.00