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Immigrant Ships to Australia

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Author Dacre Smyth
Published in 1991, Australia
Hardcover, 132 Pages
Size - 23cm * 22cm

In the nineteenth century, a ship was the means of travel for the long distances between colonies and, usually, between countries. Australia has been the destination of a diverse group of the world's migrants, with the unusual distinction that, until the last thirty years or so, they have universally arrived by sea. The ships on which they journeyed were an important part of the migration experience.

It is likely that the percentage of migrants in the community is lower now than at any previous time, although it is estimated that approximately 40% of the Australian population are immigrants, or the children of immigrants.

Dacre Smyth's paintings provide a representative sequence of the vessels that carried immigrants to these shores over the last two hundred years, and offer a personal view of this human flow. A collection of this nature and scope will help meet the demands of those searching their family's history and also allow most readers the pleasure of recollection of a previous time when travel was generally purposeful, and achieved with some sense of human endeavour.