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The girl from Botany Bay

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  • Author: Erickson, Carolly
    Contributor: Valentine, Nina
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    2005
    Summary:

    Historian Carolly Erickson has brought Mary's story to life, illuminating the horrors of transportation and the hardships of the early penal settlement, and describing in the extraordinary story of her escape in an open boat from Sydney to the Dutch East Indies.

    Subject(s): Biography - Australian, History | Exiles | Penal colonies | Thieves | Women prisoners
    Original Publisher: Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0471271403