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'Though the focus might seem narrow, this is an illuminating work of history. It contains within it glimpses and echoes of lives long-forgotten that speak across time with great power.' - Sydney Morning Herald
'Robin Haines' story is a microcosm of Victorian hierarchy: class, racial and sectarian feeling on the one hand, and on the other the integrity and generosity displayed by paternalism at its most high-minded.' - The Melbourne Age
'Robin Haines's excellent little study of nineteenth-century emigrant voyages to Australia from Britain cogently captures the perils of such expeditions...the book is rich in revealing anecdotes.' - Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement
'...I have realized, through reading Robin Haines's excellent study of oceanic voyages, how little I actually know about what happens in that long interval between ports...This is a slim, beautifully-written volume. One hopes that there is yet more to be gained from such carefully detailed studies.' - Maureen Lux, Medical History
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Book Title: Doctors at Sea
Book Subtitle: Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
Authors: Robin Haines
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248427
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Robin Haines 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8685-6Published: 22 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54109-6Published: 22 November 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24842-7Published: 22 November 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 248
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Australasian History, World History, Global and Transnational History