Convicted: A Fascinating History of Colonial Australia Retold Through Three Generations of One Family by Peter Bradley

Book Description

Secondhand. Ex library copy with external stickers. Faint red ink on front and back covers. Light damage to half-title pge from removal of date due slip on half-title. Blank ex libris bookplate sticker on half-title. Wear to book corners, now protected with book tape. Body text and binding are still very good.

James Bradley was a First Fleet convict found guilty of stealing a white linen handkerchief worth two shillings, and sentenced to seven years' transportation to Australia.

Joseph Bradley worked his life in the most dangerous occupation of the time -- whaling -- and despite his parents being uneducated and illiterate, went on to write a journal about his experiences, rich in history and insight.

Roland Bradley was a man of unionism and politics, and like his father and grandfather, took up the fight against the rich and powerful through his involvement with the early Maritime union. In 1894, he wrote an account of surviving the shipwreck of the SS Kanahooka, which forced its inhabitants to wander the wilderness of North Queensland for 18 days.

Following the early struggles of a fledgling colony on the path to nationhood, Convicted is an engrossing and highly imaginative retelling of the story of one family, entwined with the history of this country from the landing of the First Fleet in 1788. A unique history of Australia retold through the extraordinary lives of Peter Bradley's three ancestors: a father, son and grandson