A Life On The Ocean Wave - Brossura

Statham, Pamela; Erickson, Rica

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0522847617 ISBN 13: 9780522847611

Casa editrice: Melbourne University Press, 1994

Riassunto

Encounters with cannibals, convicts and pirates were just some of the highlights of eleven long journeys under sail Captain George Bayly made around the world in the early nineteenth century.The journal Captain Bayly kept of his travels is notable for the historical significance of his voyages, and the writer's eye for a good story. It contains eyewitness accounts of the transportation of male and female convicts to Australia, the voyage of British immigrants to the ill-fated settlement attempted by Thomas Peel near Perth, hostilities between Maoris and Europeans, and trading voyages to and from China.Captain Bayly's stories of typhoons, floods, heroic rescues, shipboard quarrels and deaths give the book appeal to a wide audience. The journal's depiction of the infant Australian settlements as just part of a widely-flung network of British colonial outposts in the nineteenth century also provide an insight into the nation's economic development.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Melbourne University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0522847617
• ISBN 13: 9780522847611
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 404