The Stony Ground

Michael Crowley

Waterside Press, 2018

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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.

ISBN-13
9781909976573
ISBN-10
1909976571
Publisher
Waterside Press
Year
2018
Publication date
2018-06-20
Pages
200
Dimensions
232x155x25
Weight
312