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Author : James Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780949910325
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Escape from Botany Bay, 1791 written by James Martin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Hausman
Publisher : Irie Books
ISBN 13 : 9781617202032
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Escape from Botany Bay written by Gerald Hausman and published by Irie Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat.
Author : Gerald Hausman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439403276
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Escape from Botany Bay written by Gerald Hausman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel tells the true story of Mary Bryant, a spirited girl in 18th century England, who is sentenced to a prison ship bound for Australia but makes a harrowing escape. Caught stealing a lady's bonnet in Cornwall, England, in 1786, 19-year-old Mary Broad is sentenced to seven years' incarceration on a prison ship bound for Australia. Amid squalid, dangerous conditions below decks, Mary fights for her life and her dignity, and her spirited, outspoken ways rally her fellow prisoners. She also attracts the attention of Watkin Tench, a marine who helps her get food and clothing and whose child she eventually bears. But Tench will not marry her, and Mary is betrothed to Will Bryant, another convict whom she'd known as a child.
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 : Meg Keneally
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785768824
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Fled written by Meg Keneally and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fierce and heart-breaking historical debut, perfect for fans of The Light Between Oceans and based on the incredible true story of convict Mary Bryant. Highway robber Convict Runaway Mother Jenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live in the Devon forest, she becomes a successful highway woman - until her luck runs out. Transported to Australia, pregnant and alone, Jenny must face harsh challenges in an unforgiving land. When famine hits the new colony, Jenny becomes convinced that those she most cares about will not survive. She becomes the leader in a grand plot of escape. Setting sail in a small open boat on an unknown ocean, she will do anything for freedom, but at what cost?
Author : Con Costello
Publisher : Irish American Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Botany Bay written by Con Costello and published by Irish American Book Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 45,000 Irish convicts (men and women) transported to Australia between 1791 and 1853. The book investigates the social background of the period and the procedures under which the accused were tried, imprisoned and transported.
Author : Rosa Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Far from Botany Bay written by Rosa Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At age 21, Mary Broom was sentenced to hang for the crime of stealing a cloak. When her sentence was commuted to transportation "upon the sea, beyond the seas," she was sent to Australia. One of the first European women to set foot on the continent, she landed in what was to become a prison colony popularly known as "Botany Bay." Mary endured two "starvation years" as the colony struggled to feed itself. Then, in 1791, she executed the most daring escape ever attempted from that wild and brutal place on the far side of the world." "How such a young, uneducated woman could have developed a plan to get herself back to England, and found the courage to implement it, is a mystery. How she persuaded eight men to accept her leadership is more mysterious yet. Her story has been told before, in history and fiction, the two generally co-mingled, as they are here. But never has the nature of this remarkable woman been so completely explored." "What combination of physical endurance, psychological daring, natural intelligence, and trust in her own intuition made it possible for Mary Broom to succeed at the kind of escape that almost always ended in death for those who attempted it? And what does her story say about how much female liberation and equality have been advanced by women who never considered the concept, only its absolute necessity?"--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Watkin Tench
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465508635
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson written by Watkin Tench and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1961-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it is recollected how much has been written to describe the Settlement of New South Wales, it seems necessary if not to offer an apology, yet to assign a reason, for an additional publication. The embarked in the fleet which sailed to found the establishment at Botany Bay. He shortly after published a Narrative of the Proceedings and State of the Colony, brought up to the beginning of July, 1788, which was well received, and passed through three editions. This could not but inspire both confidence and gratitude; but gratitude, would be badly manifested were he on the presumption of former favour to lay claim to present indulgence. He resumes the subject in the humble hope of communicating information, and increasing knowledge, of the country, which he describes. He resided at Port Jackson nearly four years: from the 20th of January, 1788, until the 18th of December, 1791. To an active and contemplative mind, a new country is an inexhaustible source of curiosity and speculation. It was the author's custom not only to note daily occurrences, and to inspect and record the progression of improvement; but also, when not prevented by military duties, to penetrate the surrounding country in different directions, in order to examine its nature, and ascertain its relative geographical situations. The greatest part of the work is inevitably composed of those materials which a journal supplies; but wherever reflections could be introduced without fastidiousness and parade, he has not scrupled to indulge them, in common with every other deviation which the strictness of narrative would allow. When this publication was nearly ready for the press; and when many of the opinions which it records had been declared, fresh accounts from Port Jackson were received. To the state of a country, where so many anxious trying hours of his life have passed, the author cannot feel indifferent. If by any sudden revolution of the laws of nature; or by any fortunate discovery of those on the spot, it has really become that fertile and prosperous land, which some represent it to be, he begs permission to add his voice to the general congratulation. He rejoices at its success: but it is only justice to himself and those with whom he acted to declare, that they feel no cause of reproach that so complete and happy an alteration did not take place at an earlier period.
Author : Charles Herbert Currey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant (née Broad). written by Charles Herbert Currey and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1786 Mary Bryant [nee Broad] was convicted of assault & robbery and sentenced to be hanged. She was subsequently transported to Sydney. In 1791 she escaped the convict settlement with her two children, her husband, William Bryant and 7 other felons.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Roebuck Society Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Furlong
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1910634360
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Treasures from UCL written by Gillian Furlong and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UCL has one of the foremost university Special Collections in the UK. It is a treasure trove of national and international importance, comprising over a million items dating from the 4th-century AD to the present day. Treasures from UCL draws together detailed descriptions and images of 70 of the most prized items. Between the magnificent illuminated Latin Bible of the 13th-century and the personal items of one of the 20th-century’s greatest writers, George Orwell, the many highlights of this remarkable collection will delight and intrigue anyone who picks up this book.
Author : David Levell
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 : 9780702236860
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Tour to Hell written by David Levell and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid and barely believable stories of courage and foolhardiness in colonial Australia. Tour to Hell tells the riveting and often tragic stories of the convicts who escaped, or tried to escape, Australia's early penal settlements. With the continent a blank slate to the newcomers, a 'convict escape mythology' developed, suggesting sanctuaries in the bush and short overland journeys to other countries. One of the incredible myths that spread was that China was just north of New South Wales, separated only by a large river. Until this mythology swept through the convict ranks, the bush had made a very effective prison wall. Once it did, however, the fear of the unknown became a liberating (but mostly misplaced) faith in the bush. With an engaging and fast-paced narrative, Tour to Hell is Australian history at its rollicking best. It graphically brings to life the adventures of absconding sanctuary-seekers and their opponents.
Author : James Bennett
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 1742241964
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Radical Newcastle written by James Bennett and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalized young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen in the context of other moments of resistance such as the 1890 Maritime Strike, Rothbury miners' lockout in 1929 and the recent battle for the Laman Street fig trees. As Australia’s first industrial city, Newcastle is also a natural home of radicalism but until now, the stories which reveal its breadth and impact have remained untold. Radical Newcastlebrings together short illustrated essays from leading scholars, local historians and present day radicals to document both the iconic events of the region’s radical past, and less well known actions seeking social justice for workers, women, Aboriginal people and the environment
Author : Kay Walsh
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642105995
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850 written by Kay Walsh and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive guide to published Australian autobiographical writing which deals with life in Australia up to 1850. Entries are listed alphabetically by author's name. Includes three separate indexes to personal names, places and subjects. Walsh has worked on numerous Australian reference publications. Hooton teaches English at the Australian Defence Force Academy and is co-author of 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature' (1985); Walsh is assisting her in preparing a new edition.
Author : George Barrington
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay written by George Barrington and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrewd publishers exploited the famous name and presented a seamless and colourful assemblage cut from official journals, revealing the extent of close contact with aboriginal peoples, the treatment of convicts and discovery of unusual plants and animals. Bearing all the hallmarks of authenticity, Barrington's account gained a singular place in popular contemporary travel and exploration literature, providing the foundation for a long series of embellished and illustrated histories. Botany Bay's reputation for cruel deprivation often overshadowed tales of opportunity presented to the talented. Barrington's revival as a reformed convict helped transform his own image, while the narrative's insights into the rigours of transportation, the struggle for survival and daily life in the penal colony initiated a lively convict travel literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jill Sharman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Escape of 11 Convicts Including One Young Woman and Two Little Children from the Colony of N.S.W. in March 1791 written by Jill Sharman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Historical Magazine, Or, Classical Library of Public Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
