"This book was conceived as an attempt to bring together from as many English sources as survive a comprehensive account of emigration to the New World from its
Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced by judicial process to be sent to the American colonies for a variety of crime
A comprehensive listing compiled from English public records of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious, and economic reasons; of those who
A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to