The Long Farewell
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few stories capture the raw courage and heartbreak of human migration as powerfully as The Long Farewell. Don Charlwood chronicles the harrowing nineteenth-century voyages of emigrants who left the British Isles bound for Australia, enduring months at sea aboard overcrowded sailing ships in conditions that tested the limits of human endurance. Drawing on diaries, letters, and contemporary accounts, Charlwood reconstructs with vivid immediacy the terror of storms, the despair of disease, the grief of shipboard deaths, and the fragile hope that sustained ordinary men and women through extraordinary ordeals. Charlwood, best known for his celebrated memoir No Moon Tonight, brings the same unflinching empathy and meticulous research to this sweeping work of narrative history, illuminating the collective experience of those who shaped a nation through sheer will to survive. The book stands as a profound meditation on displacement, perseverance, and the irreversible act of leaving a homeland behind — a farewell that was, for so many, truly without end. What drove tens of thousands to risk everything on a voyage to the unknown, and what did they find when they finally arrived?
Author: Don Charlwood
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few stories capture the raw courage and heartbreak of human migration as powerfully as The Long Farewell. Don Charlwood chronicles the harrowing nineteenth-century voyages of emigrants who left the British Isles bound for Australia, enduring months at sea aboard overcrowded sailing ships in conditions that tested the limits of human endurance. Drawing on diaries, letters, and contemporary accounts, Charlwood reconstructs with vivid immediacy the terror of storms, the despair of disease, the grief of shipboard deaths, and the fragile hope that sustained ordinary men and women through extraordinary ordeals. Charlwood, best known for his celebrated memoir No Moon Tonight, brings the same unflinching empathy and meticulous research to this sweeping work of narrative history, illuminating the collective experience of those who shaped a nation through sheer will to survive. The book stands as a profound meditation on displacement, perseverance, and the irreversible act of leaving a homeland behind — a farewell that was, for so many, truly without end. What drove tens of thousands to risk everything on a voyage to the unknown, and what did they find when they finally arrived?