Jenny Robin Jones

No Simple Passage (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Treaty of Waitangi had been in place for only two years when the London set out from England with a full shipload of wannabe pioneers. Driven by a variety of motives, many of them related to poverty and lack of positive expectations, they responded to slick advertising and set out for a new life at the other end of the world.

Jenny Robin Jones has created a startling record of life on board the London. By imaginatively stowing away alongside her ancestor Rebecca Remington. The narrative vividly pieces together the days at sea on this floating microcosm using the journal of the ship's surgeon and that of a cabin passenger. Combined with the portrayal of the sometimes arduous voyage are accounts of the Wellington settlement as the pioneers will find it and the historical events they will become caught up in.

Coming face-to-face with the 258 emigrants, we discover the lives they left behind and their dreams for the future who will flourish, who will founder and who won't even make it to their new homeland.

Rich in historical detail and human spirit, No Simple Passage is narrative non-fiction at its most immediate and compelling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Robin Jones
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780995102545
• Artikelnr.: 69740348

Autorenporträt

Jenny Robin Jones explores history through a mechanism of unfolding narrative. The theme of pioneering is strong in her work and was explored in her first book, Writers in Residence: a journey with pioneer New Zealand writers. The theme of belonging is also strong in these books and is the subject of her 2018 publication, Not For Ourselves Alone: Belonging in an Age of Loneliness.
She has also written short stories, travel articles, author biographies and children's non-fiction. A long involvement with the New Zealand Society of Authors included many years' service as its executive director and as its representative on the board of Copyright Licensing Limited. She was a long-term chair of the selection panel for the annual CLL awards.

Jenny Robin Jones was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1947 and brought up in England. In 1970 she returned to New Zealand where she now lives.