A. James Hammerton
Autore di Ten Pound Poms: A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia
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- 4
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- 1
- Utenti
- 33
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- #421,955
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- 3.5
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This book tells the story of subsidised migrants from the UK to Australia (from the 1940s to the 1970s), drawing on interviews, letters, diaries, photographs, and written accounts, talking about the plans, expectations, realities, ambivalence, family relationships, identities, and diverse experiences of those who settled in Australia, as well as a sizeable group who subsequently returned to England.
I was particularly fascinated by the accounts of those who Hammerton and Thomson described as 'pioneers of the backpacking generation', whose accounts spoke of 'restlessness', 'itchy feet', a quest to 'find themselves', and other such motifs, which I had assumed to be more contemporary in nature.
A very readable account, that leaves me intrigued and wanting to know more ...… (altro)