Great Escapes by Convicts in Colonial Australia by Warwick Hirst

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Hair-raising yarns about our convict forebears. 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 manage to escape not once, but twice, and with what dire consequences?