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The Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse
Michael Crowley
The Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse
Michael Crowley
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.
200 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 20, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781909976573 |
Publishers | Waterside Press |
Pages | 200 |
Dimensions | 155 × 232 × 25 mm · 312 g |
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