Start year: 2007
The British barque Daphne, bound for Australia, sails from Portsmouth; crammed with colonial passengers, aristo-adventurers and frothing missionaries. Four days from Sydney the waves are wreathed in sparks, the sky runs like quicksilver, and the very sea seems to open wide and swallow… The descendents of the Daphne’s passengers eke out a desperate life in Gutsville: a shanty-city held together w...
Publisher: Image
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