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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Millen, Julia. Colonial tears and sweat. Wellington [N.Z.] : Reed, 1984 (OCoLC)988271546 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Julia Millen |
ISBN: | 0589014935 9780589014933 |
OCLC Number: | 12648238 |
Description: | 160 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The longest emigrant route in the world -- Arrival : rain, mud, rats and sandflies -- A glorious country for a labouring man -- The greatest evil of all -- When a young woman immigrates -- Rough, queer servants -- Summer dust storms, winter mud -- Persons of ill repute -- Sweating : work or slavery? -- Exodus. |
Responsibility: | Julia Millen. |
Abstract:
For many thousands of people in nineteenth century New Zealand, life in the colony was no glorious adventure. It was a land in whichy only the fittest survived and the most enterprising prospered. For the rest, fortune was less kind.
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