Grant, J. G. fl 1840s? :Emigration. Detailing the progress and vicissitudes of an emigrant!! Dedicated to all those who would leave their native country to seek a better condition in a distant foreign land. [London. J. G. Grant invented. On stone & printed by G. Davies. E. Lacey [publisher] 1834?]

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Grant, J. G. fl 1840s? :Emigration. Detailing the progress and vicissitudes of an emigrant!! Dedicated to all those who would leave their native country to seek a better condition in a distant foreign land. [London. J. G. Grant invented. On stone & printed by G. Davies. E. Lacey [publisher] 1834?]

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A 15-panel series of comical scenes, showing a man leaving England for America. He encounters a storm on the way. On arrival in America he finds cholera is raging. He sails down the Gulf of St Lawrence in the crowded hull of an immigrant ship and is shown his farm land in the depths of a Canadian forest, where he is surrounded by snakes and bears. At his log hut, he endures mosquitoes and burning sun with high temperatures and he is pursued by a crocodile in the neighbourhood. He is visited ...

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Date created

1834

Creator

Grant, J G, active 1840s / Davies, G, active 1840s / Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22607293

Locations

Dover / Canada / North America

Related subjects

Crocodiles / Snakes / Spiders / Storms / Emigration and immigration / Fleas / Fires / Rats / Passenger quarters / Cholera / Agriculture / Wit and humour / Dover / Canada / North America

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