A Merciless Place
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Author |
: Emma Christopher |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 454 |
Release |
: 2011-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199782550 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199782555 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Merciless Place by : Emma Christopher
"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
Author |
: Emma Christopher |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 454 |
Release |
: 2011-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191623523 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191623520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa by : Emma Christopher
This is a story lost to history for over two hundred years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over. In the wake of its most crushing defeat, the America War of Independence, the British Government began shipping its criminals to West Africa. Some were transported aboard ships going to pick up their other human cargo: African slaves. When they arrived at their destination, soldiers and even convicts were forced to work in the region's slave-trading forts guarding the human merchandise. In a few short years the scheme brought death, wholesale desertions, mutiny, piracy and even murder. Some of the most egregious crimes were not committed by the exported criminals but by those sent out to guard them. Acts of wanton desperation added to rash transgressions as those whom society had already thrown out realised that they had nothing left to lose. As jail and prison hulks overflowed, and as every other alternative settlement proved unsuitable, the British Government gambled and decided to send its criminals as far away as possible, to the great south land sighted years before by Captain James Cook. Out of the embers of the African debacle came the modern nation of Australia. The extraordinary tale is now being told for the first time - how a small band of good-for-nothing members of the British Empire spanned the world from America, to Africa, and on to Australia, profoundly if utterly unwittingly changing history.
Author |
: Emma Christopher |
Publisher |
: Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages |
: 470 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781742372273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1742372279 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Merciless Place by : Emma Christopher
In this book, the author has found the 'missing link' between the American Revolution and The Fatal Shore, and tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales.
Author |
: Danielle Vega |
Publisher |
: Razorbill |
Total Pages |
: 610 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984836182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984836188 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Merciless I and II by : Danielle Vega
"First published in the United States of America by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2014"--Title page verso.
Author |
: Patrick Weston Joyce |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 554 |
Release |
: 1902 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89096307145 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places by : Patrick Weston Joyce
Author |
: John Stoughton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 1883 |
ISBN-10 |
: ONB:+Z338112908 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spanish Reformers, Their Memories and Dwelling-places by : John Stoughton
Author |
: William Howitt |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 1882 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590508873 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Visits to remarkable places by : William Howitt
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 836 |
Release |
: 1905 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89062299607 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cigar Makers' Official Journal by :
Vols. 12-20 include: Cigar Maker's International Union of America. Annual financial report (title varies slightly), 1886-1894. (From 1886-1891 issued as a numbered section of the periodical.).
Author |
: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 510 |
Release |
: 1877 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924082223367 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poems of Places by : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 1890 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B5173888 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anecdota Oxoniensia by :