Under Full Sail Tapa dura - 2016

Paperback. Very Good.

Sydney: ABC Books, 2016. 374pp, index, glossary, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. Stories of migrants to Australia on the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

ABC Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2017. Hardcover. 0733334695 . Edges and endpapers lightly foxed ; Colour and b/w plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages .

ABC Books, Australia, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation. The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to the Australian colony of the nineteenth century, is one of the world's great migration stories. For anyone who travelled to Australia before 1850, it was a long and arduous journey that could take as much as four months. With the arrival of the clipper ships, and favourable winds, the journey from England could be done in a little over half this time. It was a revolution in travel that made the clipper ships the jet airlines of their day, bringing keen and willing migrants 'down under' in record time, all hell-bent on making their fortune in Australia. Rob Mundle is back on the water, with a ripping story that starts on the sea, aboard a clipper ship charging across the Southern Ocean, laden with passengers heading for Melbourne in response to the… Leer más