Title: Setting sail
Description: Driven by the dream of creating a new life in the South Sea colonies, a small group of immigrants (among them several recent converts to the Mormon Church) becomes part of the surging tide of immigrants leaving the British Isles. Facing the perils of life at sea, their lives become inextricably intertwined as they make their journey to a new home.
Subjects: Mormons, Mormon pioneers, History, Coal miners, Transatlantic voyages, Fiction, Fiction, christian, historical, Mormons, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Ireland, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, New zealand, fiction
Places: Great Britain, Cork (Ireland : County), Glasgow (Scotland), New Zealand, Scotland, Liverpool (England), West (U.S.)
Time periods: 19th century