A Life On The Ocean Wave

Herausgeber: Statham, Pamela; Erickson, Rica

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780522847611
• ISBN-10: 0522847617
• Artikelnr.: 75490410

Autorenporträt

Dr Frederica Erickson OAM is a well-known West Australian naturalist, historian, artist, genealogist and author. She is the author of over fifteen books and many articles and papers.Dr Pamela Statham is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Western Australia and the author of a number of books.