The girl from Botany Bay: the true story of the convict Mary Broad and her extraordinary escape. Erickson, Carolly.
21956 Sydney Pan Macmillan 2004 1st p/b ed. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, 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 $20.00AUD Click here to order or message the dealer
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