Podcast

Deco Retro

Wednesday, 11 September, 2019

Voyage Out

This episode of Deco Retro focuses on the Voyage Out: Life on the Migrant Ships 1870-1885 as told to Phillippa by David Hastings whose book “Over the Mountains of the Sea” reveals the hardships and perils migrants faced during the three month voyage to New Zealand.

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