The Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse

ISBN-13: 9781909976573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

Michael Crowley

Opis

The story of Cornish farmworker James Ruse, reprieved from the hangman's noose and transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet in 1788. A highly original narrative of exile and survival from rural England to New South Wales and the Tasman Sea filling a gap in the literature of transportation and dramatising a key period in British penal history.