Beautiful Bodies by Gerald Stone

Beautiful Bodies by Gerald Stone

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SKU TBM9781405039468
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781405039468
Author: Gerald Stone
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2009
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed last page. Pen mark on author synopsis page, otherwise interior is still very good. Pages have started to sun.

In August 1833, the Amphitrite, a small convict ship bound for the colonies of Australia, was wrecked in a terrible storm on the coast of France. She carried 102 female prisoners, 12 of their children, along with the captain, the crew, a medical officer and one passenger - the medical officer's wife. Only three people survived. It was the convict era's first major shipwreck.

The death of so many women and children, largely due to the incompetence and blind bigotry of those responsible for their safety, was a scandal that threatened to rock the very foundations of the transportation system.

The reaction of the British government was to cover it up, refusing to release even the names of the dead, depriving those tragic women and children of their very identity, even in death.

Gerald Stone has written a narrative recreation of the voyage and its disastrous end that brings these lost women back to life, revealing the world they lived in, their crimes, their loves, their hopes, their fears, and their final tragedy. (publisher blurb)

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