- Publisher: Unicorn
- Year: 2022
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 112pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 215x154mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781914414299
- Product code: 538696
The Diary of William Young of Cotchford Farm
New Hardback Illustrated
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When his elderly aunt moved to a nursing home, Kevin Last found among her possessions a remarkable document: a young Sussex farmer’s diary of a journey to Canada in 1854–55. Crisply observant, it forms the basis of this account of his crossing from Liverpool to New York, and on to Lake Erie, where he found work as a farmhand.
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William Young was the son of gentleman farmer Henry Young who owned Cotchford Farm in the mid-nineteenth century. At the age of just twenty-three William left the farm for what we might now term a 'gap year' working in Canada. This book, based on his own diary from 1854/5, tells the fascinating story of his journey via Liverpool and onwards on a three-masted schooner to New York, Buffalo and eventually Lake Erie. The voyage had its own perils, a long way from transatlantic travel today. Unbeknown to our diarist, the ship he travelled on was part of a criminal enterprise and eventually suffered both mutiny and wreck. In the mill towns on Lake Erie Young proves an indispensable worker both on crops and stonework. Just as he is about to return to England he is beset with difficulties..... His is a young, clear voice on life a hundred and sixty years ago.
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When his elderly aunt moved to a nursing home, Kevin Last found among her possessions a remarkable document: a young Sussex farmer’s diary of a journey to Canada in 1854–55. Crisply observant, it forms the basis of this account of his crossing from Liverpool to New York, and on to Lake Erie, where he found work as a farmhand.
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