One Way Passage: Swedish Migrants To Australia In The James Sanderson Archive
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the great waves of modern migration reshaped the world, thousands of Swedes boarded ships bound for Australia on a journey that offered no guarantee of return — One Way Passage: Swedish Migrants to Australia in the James Sanderson Archive chronicles this extraordinary chapter of human movement, drawing on a remarkable photographic and documentary archive to reconstruct the lives of those who left Scandinavia for the sunburnt shores of the Southern Hemisphere. Authored by Stig Hokanson, Eileen B. Johnson, and John S. Martin, and edited by Birgitta Sharpe, this meticulously researched work presents intimate portraits of Swedish migrants — their motivations, their struggles, and their ultimate fates in a land far removed from everything they had known. The volume argues powerfully that migration history is not merely a story of statistics and demographics, but one of individual courage, loss, and reinvention, illuminated here through the rare lens of the Sanderson Archive. The authors' collaborative approach weaves together social history, personal testimony, and archival photography to produce a work of both scholarly rigour and deep human empathy. Underpinning it all is a profound question that resonates across time: what does it truly mean to leave one world behind and stake everything on another? Readers drawn to the intersections of immigration, identity, and the forging of modern Australia will find this an indispensable and deeply moving account.
Author: Stig Hokanson, Eileen B. Johnson, John S. Martin
Format: Paperback
Published: 1996, Word Wright, Sydney
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the great waves of modern migration reshaped the world, thousands of Swedes boarded ships bound for Australia on a journey that offered no guarantee of return — One Way Passage: Swedish Migrants to Australia in the James Sanderson Archive chronicles this extraordinary chapter of human movement, drawing on a remarkable photographic and documentary archive to reconstruct the lives of those who left Scandinavia for the sunburnt shores of the Southern Hemisphere. Authored by Stig Hokanson, Eileen B. Johnson, and John S. Martin, and edited by Birgitta Sharpe, this meticulously researched work presents intimate portraits of Swedish migrants — their motivations, their struggles, and their ultimate fates in a land far removed from everything they had known. The volume argues powerfully that migration history is not merely a story of statistics and demographics, but one of individual courage, loss, and reinvention, illuminated here through the rare lens of the Sanderson Archive. The authors' collaborative approach weaves together social history, personal testimony, and archival photography to produce a work of both scholarly rigour and deep human empathy. Underpinning it all is a profound question that resonates across time: what does it truly mean to leave one world behind and stake everything on another? Readers drawn to the intersections of immigration, identity, and the forging of modern Australia will find this an indispensable and deeply moving account.