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  • Great Convict Escapes in Colonial Australia

    de Warwick Hirst ...
    Series Libro 134 - Untapped
    Six vividly told true stories of daring, desperate and dangerous escape attempts by colonial era convicts. Just how did Mary Bryant make it from Sydney to Timor in an open boat? And how did the murderous cannibal Alexander Pearce managed to escape not once, but twice, and with what dire consequences?Based on original documents and accounts, this book is a story of human endeavour and ... Leer más

    $8.58 USD

  • Man who stole the Cyprus

    A True Story of Escape

    de Warwick Hirst ...
    On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership of William Swallow, a prisoner for life. Eight years earlier he had stowed away on a ship to England only to be eventually arrested and sent to Hobart for the second time. After marooning the crew, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Ship That Never Was

    The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

    de Adam Courtenay ...
    The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storytellerIn 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The First Fleet

    de Rob Mundle ...
    A biography of unprecedented expedition under sailThe role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition under sail: the extraordinary eight-month, 17-000-nautical mile voyage of the First Fleet. With ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Australia's Most Notorious Convicts: From thieves and bushrangers to murderers and cannibals

    de Barbara Malpass Edwards ...
    Thousands of convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, some managed to escape incarceration and went on to achieve notoriety in their new land. A few tried to invent a Robin Hood reputation, taking the side of the poor settler against those in authority. Some committed crimes so heinous they were both feared and despised by the general population. Their lives were desperate, their fate ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Australians

    Thomas Keneally

    de Thomas Keneally ...
    In this volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that he has woven a vibrant history to do full justice to ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Fatal Shore

    The epic of Australia's founding

    de Robert Hughes ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today."One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times**Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the ... Leer más

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  • Banks

    A riveting account of one of the world's most famous explorers, a story of lust, science, adventure, and voyages of discovery, from the award-winning author of BANJO, SISTER VIV and HUDSON FYSH

    de Grantlee Kieza ...
    Lust, science, adventure -- Joseph Banks and his voyages of discoverySir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.Fabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Remarkable Mrs Reibey

    The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh

    de Grantlee Kieza ...
    The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful woman in colonial historySHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INDIE BOOK AWARDSIn 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove.It was the beginning of a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Buckley's Chance

    a new era of Australian non-fiction storytelling

    de Garry Linnell ...
    'Always compelling, very entertaining.' Daily Telegraph'A fabulous yarn. Highly recommended.' Better ReadingHe fought Napoleon’s army and survived.He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose.Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history.The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Bounty

    The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

    de Caroline Alexander ...
    Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Hamilton Hume

    Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

    de Robert Macklin ...
    'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well as providing a portrait of the evolving colony.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDThe stirring untold story ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD