The Life and Times of Moondyne Joe: Swan River Colony Convict Joseph Bolitho Johns by W J Edgar

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

This book unshrouds much of the mystery and misconceptions that surround one of the convict era’s most remarkable and misunderstood personalities.

Bill Edgar delves into the convict system in England as well as in Australia, the social attitudes of those mid-Victorian times and into Joe’s early life and incarceration in Wales and England, undoubtedly powerful influences on his subsequent behaviour in Western Australia. (back cover)