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- Title The Ship That Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History
- Author Adam Courtenay
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- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher ABC Books
- ISBN 9780733338571 / 0733338577
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.27 x 6.02 x 1.02 in (21.01 x 15.29 x 2.59 cm)
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Sydney: Abc. Very Good+. 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 0733338577 . Illustrated with 4 maps, In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth.Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Wresting control of the ship they'd been building to transport them to their fresh hell, the escapees instead sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale.The…
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ABC Books, Australia, 2018. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 323 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: ABC Books, Australia, 2018. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth.Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners…
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