THE VOYAGE OUT - 100 YEARS OF SEA TRAVEL TO AUSTRALIA

This is a hard to find publication.  Don't miss this opportunity to pick up a copy at a very reasonable price.

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.

This book 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.  More than a century of passenger travel by sea is covered, 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.

This 205 page hardcover is ex-library and as such has all the usual stamps and stickers internally and externally.  The dustjacket also has some creases and marks and there is heavy shelf wear to top and bottom of hard cover.  Internally there are some light marks to a few pages and a texta mark to front page crossing out original price.  It is otherwise in a good condition and this is a great opportunity to pick up a copy at a very reasonable price.