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The Girl from Botany Bay

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Availability:In StockContributor:Carolly EricksonPublish date:2004-10-01Pages:234
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley (TP)ISBN-13:9780471271406ISBN-10:471271403UPC:9780471271406Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, ModernBook Topic:18th CenturySize:9.12 x 6.34 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCYD2S989N

The Girl from Botany Bay

On a moonless night in the early 1790s, prisoner Mary Bryant, her husband William, her two small children, and seven other convicts stole a twenty-foot longboat and slipped noiselessly out of Sydney Cove, Australia, eluding their captors.


They sailed north, all the way to Indonesia, traveling some thirty-six hundred treacherous miles in ten weeks-an incredible feat of seamanship. For a time, Mary...


Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley (TP)ISBN-13:9780471271406ISBN-10:471271403UPC:9780471271406Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, ModernBook Topic:18th CenturySize:9.12 x 6.34 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCYD2S989N
CAROLLY ERICKSON is a prizewinning historian and biographer, widely acclaimed as a master of historical writing. Her eighteen nonfiction books have won her a large international following. Erickson lives in Hawaii.
Publisher: Wiley (TP)

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