Sailing to Australia: Shipboard Diaries by Nineteenth Century British Immigrants

By Andrew Hassam

Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally, and one way of dealing with this appears to have been to write a diary. The surviving diaries offer snapshots of the lives of and experiences of many ordinary people who emigrated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719045460
• ISBN13: 9780719045462
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 235 Pages