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Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships by Peter Wilton Johnson

Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships

Peter Wilton Johnson

240 pages first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did ...

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