The stony ground : the remembered life of convict James Ruse
Crowley, Michael, 1959-2018
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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.
Main title:
The stony ground : the remembered life of convict James Ruse / Michael Crowley.
Author:
Crowley, Michael, 1959-, author
Imprint:
Hook : Waterside Press, 2018.
Collation:
vi, 188 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Formerly CIP. UkAlso issued online.
Linking notes:
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ISBN:
9781909976573 (pbk)9781910979570 (ePub ebook)9781910979587 (PDF ebook)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
380489