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Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia
1988051614Ringwood Vic: Viking O'Neil 1988. Printed in double column. xiii 353pp b/w ills throughout notes five appendices bibliography index end-paper maps: Van Diemen's Land. Olive cloth boards in dust-jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket inc 1cm tear at top of rear spine fold some minor silverfishing to bottom edge of boards. The book traces 'the lives and experiences of the specially selected 308 convicts transported in HMS Calcutta in 1803. The convicts arrived at Port Phillip and moved to the Derwent where they began the settlement which became Hobart. As social history the book reveals much about the interchanges between felon and free male and female in early colonial days. The work also includes meticulous biographies of every Calcutta convict with many surnames of the thousands of descendants. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Viking O'Neil Hardcover
Lawrence Jones · Australie125,00 $AU≈ 82,39 €
