Bone and Beauty: The Ribbon Boys' Rebellion of 1830 by Jeanette M Thompson

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip is now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Body text and binding are still very good.

A new perspective on a dramatic moment in Australian colonial history.

In October 1830, rebelling from years of maltreatment and starvation, a band of Irish convicts, the Ribbon Boys, liberated eighty convicts from Bathurst farms and led them inland towards freedom. Governor Darling, fearing that others would also rise up, sends the 39th Regiment in pursuit. Three bloody battles follow, but to whom will justice be served?

Rich with detail, Bone and Beauty fuses archival evidence and narrative technique to tell the gripping story of the Ribbon Boys and their reputed leader, Ralph Entwistle.

For the first time, the influence of Irish secret societies, the scale of oppression and corruption, and the complex web of criminal and family relationships behind these events are revealed.