Mimosa: Life & Times

Susan Wilkinson

Hanes ffeithiol am y Mimosa, y llong a gariodd yr ymfudwyr Cymreig i Batagonia.

ISBN: 9781784611842

Pris: £9.95

Adran: Hanes

Cyfrwng: Clawr Meddal

Iaith: Saesneg

Nifer y tudalennau: 248

Mwy o wybodaeth

Adolygiadau

"This detailed account has been written by the world's leading researcher on the history of the 'Mimosa'. Susan Wilkinson has been incredibly thorough in her researches and found out details about the ship that no one dreamt still survived. The ship's voyage in 1865 to Patagonia full of Welsh settlers bound for a new life in a bleak part of Patagonia is part of the story of a romantic vision that became fully realised, albeit only after passing though many dramas and disappointments. This pair of books is an inevitable part of the library of any person interested in the establishment of the Welsh Colony of Argentine Patagonia. - Amazon review

"From beginning to end, I was captivated by the wonderfully researched and detailed stories of Mimosa's beginnings in the ship building yards in Scotland, her subsequent sea voyages via the port of Liverpool in the growing commercial trading of tea, sugar, cotton and palm oil, including the sea routes to all those ports around the world so well described by the author. I read the book, sitting in my cotton clothes, map in one hand, tea with sugar in the other, and a lighted candle for company - the sort of living consequential proof of all that the author had written about!!I was becoming so educated in the commercial and trading aspects of Mimosa and the history of clipper ships generally, that it came as something of a shock to read about the Mimosa's most famous sea journey - carrying Welsh emigrants from Liverpool to a new life in Patagonia. It was absolutely thrilling. The author's brilliant research made it absolutely come alive, so that I felt I was embarking with them. My God how brave they were! And what a terrible reception awaited them... And to think that the colony actually survived such dark and difficult conditions to carry on and colonise further inland... I hope the author writes a sequel to follow up on this compelling story! - Amazon Review

Broliant

Hanes y llong a hwyliodd o Lerpwl i Batagonia - saith mil o filltiroedd i ffwrdd - ym mis Mai 1865. Ar fwrdd y Mimosa roedd 162 o ddynion, merched a phlant o Gymru oedd yn chwilio am fywyd gwell yn Ne America.

Ceir yma hanes adeiladu'r llong yn Aberdeen, ei pherchennogwyr a'r rhai oedd yn ei hwylio, ei theithiau fel cliper te yn hwylio ar rai o foroedd peryclaf y byd, ei thaith enwog i Batagonia a'i dyddiau olaf ar

arfordir Gorllewin Affrica.

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