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Author : Ian Brand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780909640057
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Escape from Port Arthur written by Ian Brand and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642975348
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Escape from Port Arthur written by Allen Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Perceval Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862951259
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Devilish Port Arthur Escape and the Bold Hanrahans written by Richard Perceval Davis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book His Natural Life written by Marcus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Courtenay
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460708849
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Ship That Never Was written by Adam Courtenay and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth. Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Wresting control of the ship they'd been building to transport them to their fresh hell, the escapees instead sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale. The Ship That Never Was is the entertaining and rollicking story of what is surely the greatest escape in Australian colonial history. James Porter, whose memoirs were the inspiration for Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life, is an original Australian larrikin whose ingenuity, gift of the gab and refusal to buckle under authority make him an irresistible anti-hero who deserves a place in our history.
Author : Henry Savery
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1920897046
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Quintus Servinton written by Henry Savery and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's convict past is never far away in Tasmania, where elegant stone bridges, the Georgian warehouses of Salamanca Place and the eerie ruins of Port Arthur are testimony to the back-breaking work and the hard lives endured by those sentenced to transportation. Quintus Servinton is another reminder of those cruel days. Subtitled "a tale, founded on incidents of real occurrence," the book is a loosely autobiographical story of a wayward fifth son, like Savery. Quintus Servinton (1830) is credited as being the first Australian novel, which, despite its dubious literary merit, gives it unique status. Henry Savery was born in 1791 in Somerset. He arrived in Hobart in 1825, having been sentenced to transportation for forgery. He might be completely unknown today had he not had a penchant for writing. Savery was released from servitude in 1832, having already published his major work. At Port Arthur, guides tell the story that he then sent for his wife, but she had an affair with a magistrate on the boat out, and returned to England, having been rejected by her husband. Savery was entrusted with banking work and tempted to re-offend. He appeared before the magistrate who had seduced his wife and was sent to the notorious penal settlement, Port Arthur, where he died in 1842.
Author : Caitlyn Isobel Griffin Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Acts of Escape written by Caitlyn Isobel Griffin Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741761654
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Closing Hell's Gates written by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sen.
Author : John P F Lynch
Publisher : Sid Harta Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1925282007
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Convict and the Soldier written by John P F Lynch and published by Sid Harta Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael, convicted of a minor crime, is sent to Van Diemen's Land to serve his sentence; John (the soldier) is involved in a minor scandal that means he must resign his commission. He decides to pursue a new military career in the Colonies. Paths cross, families join and hardships are overcome. This is a story of courage, seized opportunities and new beginnings. This novel is an insight into the life and times of an Irish convict and English soldier during the 1850s. The reader journeys with them from Ireland's County Clare and Cumberland in England, to the Australian Colonies of Van Diemen's Land with its penal system and finally to the Victorian bushlands. Generally historically and geographically accurate, John Lynch has lived up to his previous local history publications, by weaving true tales within these pages.
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544228111
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)
Download or read book The Means of Escape written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize-winning author’s final short story collection “shows her at the top of her form…exquisite”—with an introduction by A.S. Byatt (The Guardian, UK). Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the United Kingdom’s most highly-regarded contemporary authors. Her last novel, ‘The Blue Flower’, was the book of its year, garnering extraordinary acclaim around the world. This posthumous collection of her short stories, originally published in anthologies and newspapers, shows Penelope Fitzgerald at her very best. From the tale of a young boy in 17th-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide ranging, enigmatic—and very funny. Each one is a miniature study of human behavior’s endless absurdity.
Author : Kati Marton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416542450
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Great Escape written by Kati Marton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “intensely gripping story” of John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, Arthur Koestler, and six other world-renowned Hungarian Jews who fled the Nazis (The Washington Post Book World). In this book, New York Times–bestselling author Kati Marton tells the stunning tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest’s brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. These nine men, each celebrated for individual achievements, were part of a unique group who grew up in a time and place that will never come again. Four helped usher in the nuclear age and the computer, two were major movie myth-makers, two were immortal photographers, and one was a seminal writer. From a Peabody Award–winning journalist and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, The Great Escape is a groundbreaking, poignant American story and an important untold chapter of the tumultuous last century. “Describes the crossroads where art and politics meet, the perils of dictatorship and the horrors of war, all of it punctuated by the frantic struggle to create the atomic bomb. . . . Deserves a special place on bookshelves alongside Budapest 1900.” —The New York Times Book Review “By looking at these nine lives—salvaged, and crucial—Marton provides a moving measure of how much was lost.” —The New Yorker “[Marton has] a keen understanding of what it means to leave one’s country behind.” —The Seattle Times “A haunting tale of the wartime Hungarian diaspora. . . . Marton writes beautifully.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Filled with a number of wonderful anecdotes.” —Chicago Sun-Times “An engrossing book.” —Library Journal
Author : Tim Causer
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 191157681X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Memorandoms by James Martin written by Tim Causer and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the vast body of manuscripts composed and collected by the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), held by UCL Library’s Special Collections, is the earliest Australian convict narrative, Memorandoms by James Martin. This document also happens to be the only extant first-hand account of the most well-known, and most mythologized, escape from Australia by transported convicts. On the night of 28 March 1791, James Martin, William and Mary Bryant and their two infant children, and six other male convicts, stole the colony’s fishing boat and sailed out of Sydney Harbour. Within ten weeks they had reached Kupang in West Timor, having, in an amazing feat of endurance, travelled over 3,000 miles (c. 5,000) kilometres) in an open boat. There they passed themselves off as the survivors of a shipwreck, a ruse which—initially, at least—fooled their Dutch hosts. This new edition of the Memorandoms includes full colour reproductions of the original manuscripts, making available for the first time this hugely important document, alongside a transcript with commentary describing the events and key characters. The book also features a scholarly introduction which examines their escape and early convict absconding in New South Wales more generally, and, drawing on primary records, presents new research which sheds light on the fate of the escapees after they reached Kupang. The introduction also assesses the voluminous literature on this most famous escape, and critically examines the myths and fictions created around it and the escapees, myths which have gone unchallenged for far too long. Finally, the introduction briefly discusses Jeremy Bentham’s views on convict transportation and their enduring impact.
Author : E. K. Nozhin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Truth about Port Arthur written by E. K. Nozhin and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143795112
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Convict-era Port Arthur written by David W. Cameron and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O’Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.
Author : Ronald Weber
Publisher : Government Institutes
ISBN 13 : 1566638925
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (666 download)
Download or read book The Lisbon Route written by Ronald Weber and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation. As well as offering freedom from war, Lisbon provided spies, smugglers, relief workers, military figures, and adventurers with an avenue into the conflict and its opportunities. Yet an ever-present shadow behind the gaiety was the fragile nature of Portuguese neutrality.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 6561332016
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.
