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Author Wills, Simon, author.

Title Voyages from the past : a history of passengers at sea / Simon Wills.

Publication Info. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2014.

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Contents Cover; Dedication Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: A Queen's Gift for the Sultan; Chapter 2: Early Emigrants to America; Chapter 3: Voyage to India; Chapter 4: Health Trip to Europe; Chapter 5: Visiting the Caribbean; Chapter 6: Trading Interests in South America; Chapter 7: Early Steamship Across the Atlantic; Chapter 8: Death and Disease Under Sail; Chapter 9: Christian Missionary to Africa; Chapter 10: A Tragic Storm in the Bay of Biscay; Chapter 11: Emigration to New Zealand by Clipper; Chapter 12: Steamship to Australia with P&O
Chapter 13: A Steerage Passenger to New YorkChapter 14: An Infamous Casualty of War; Chapter 15: World Cruise in Luxury; Chapter 16: Honeymooners in the Great Depression; Chapter 17: Taking an African Holiday; Bibliography
Summary A social history of sea travel from the passengers' perspective, encompassing all walks of life and vessels departing from a variety of UK portraits Simon Wills tells the stories of ordinary people who travelled by sea between 1600 and 1940, from early Ameri.
Subject Passenger ships -- History.
Ocean travel -- History.
TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial
Passenger ships (OCoLC)fst01054378
Ocean travel. (OCoLC)fst01043585
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wills, Simon Voyages from the Past : A History of passengers at Sea Havertown : Pen and Sword,c2014 9781783036363
ISBN 9781473842618 (electronic bk.)
1473842611 (electronic bk.)
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