Doctors At Sea: Emigrant Voyages To Colonial Australia

Biography & Memoir History Australiana

Robin Haines’ Doctors at Sea charts the perilous trans-ocean journeys that carried surgeons and emigrants to colonial Australia, blending vivid biography with the wider drama of nineteenth-century medicine afloat. This 2005 illustrated hardcover preserves every detail beneath a crisp dust jacket, its 248 pages still tight and fresh from a smoke-free home.

Ideal for collectors of Australian maritime history, the volume pairs archival images with eyewitness accounts of shipboard hospitals, quarantines, and the doctors who battled scurvy, storms, and passenger mutiny. Haines, a respected historian of migration, turns passenger lists into human stories without sinking into academic jargon.

The book bears a neat gift inscription on the front pastedown (no author signature) and carries only a previous owner’s name inside the cover; otherwise the pages are unmarked, un-creased, and free of foxing. A faint keepsake rather than defacement, it sits quietly alongside the generous illustrations.

Secure this scarce naval-medical narrative now—searches for “doctors at sea Robin Haines hardcover” regularly land here, and clean copies disappear quickly from the antiquarian market.