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Good Food, Bright Fires & civility Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2001
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing 2001 During the mid-nineteenth century, more than 330,000 government-assisted emigrants travelled from their homes in Britain and Ireland to Australian shores. The sale of colonial lands provided most of the money for this huge operation, and the British Colonial Office provided the organisation. This book relates how one of its departments assembled, protected and accommodated the emigrants, cared for their health and maintained their morale in… Softcover ISBN1885606920