Under Full Sail
by Rob Mundle
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0733334695
- ISBN 13
- 9780733334696
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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 lure of gold. Brimming with countless stories of the magnificent ships and fearless (and feckless) characters we find on them, like Englishman "Bully" Forbes and American "Bully" Waterman driving their ships to the limit and the tragic legacy of the many shipwrecks that were so much a part of this era. 374 pages. Light tanning to outer page edges. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian History; History; ISBN/EAN: 9780733334696. Inventory No: 269239.. 9780733334696
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- Bookseller
- leura books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 269239
- Title
- Under Full Sail
- Author
- Rob Mundle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0733334695
- ISBN 13
- 9780733334696
- Publisher
- ABC Books
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Australian::Australian History; History; Unbranded EAN: 9780733334696 Rob Mundle Under Full Sail
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian / Australian History;
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