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How the mighty clipper boats altered Australia from convict outpost to a region. Several million Australians can track their heritage to the migrant boats of the mid- to past due 19th century. The story of the clipper boats, and the tens of thousands of migrants they taken to the Australian colony of the 19th century, is one of the world's great migration reports. For anybody who travelled to Australia before 1850, it was a long and arduous trip that can take around four months. Together with the arrival of the clipper boats and favourable winds, the trip from England could be achieved in just a little over half this time. It had been a revolution in travel that made the clipper boats the aircraft airlines of these day, bringing keen and happy migrants 'down under' in record time, all hell-bent on making their fortunes in Australia. Rob Mundle is back again on the normal water, with a ripping storyline that starts off on the ocean, aboard a clipper ship charging across the Southern Ocean, laden with passengers at risk of Melbourne in response to the lure of gold. Brimming with countless reports of the wonderful boats and fearless (and feckless) heroes we find with them, like Englishman 'Bully' Forbes and American 'Bully' Waterman driving a vehicle their boats to the limit and the tragic legacy of the numerous shipwrecks which were so much a part of this era.
