Author: Erickson, Carolly.
Title: The Girl from Botany Bay: The True Story of the Convict Mary Broad and Her Extraordinary Escape.
Description: Sydney Pan Macmillan, 2004. 1st p/b ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, some scratches bottom edge, minor edgewear. 218 pp. In 1791, three years after being transported to Botany Bay with the First Fleet, Mary Broad - highway robber, wife and mother of two - achieved the impossible. With her husband and children and a group of desperate fellow convicts, she escaped by stealing a boat and sailing it from Sydney to the Dutch East Indies. They enjoyed their freedom, until betrayal led them to be recaptured and shipped back to England. ISBN: 1405035889

Keywords: australian history, criminology, convicts, transport, maritime, transportation, new south wales (nsw), sydney, asia, indonesia 1405035889


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