The Stony Ground

The Stony Ground The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse

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Publisher's Synopsis

The story of Cornish farmworker James Ruse, reprieved from the hangman's noose and transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet in 1788. A highly original narrative of exile and survival from rural England to New South Wales and the Tasman Sea filling a gap in the literature of transportation and dramatising a key period in British penal history.

Book information

ISBN: 9781909976573
Publisher: Waterside Press
Imprint: Waterside Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: vi, 188
Weight: 312g
Height: 232mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 25mm