This preowned, 72 page, hardback book was written by Ann Giffard and published by HMSO in 1981.
Ann Gifford introducestwo journals of unsensational passages in the mid-19th century which were typical of the great majority of Atlantic crossings. This was how most people emigrated.
She describes the circumstances that often led to the decision to emigrate, and something of what happened whe they arrived in the New World.
Thirty blck and white images are included together in the central section of the book.