Great Convict Stories : (Record no. 132560)
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| control field | EBC5144772 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MiAaPQ |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240729131600.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 240724s2018 xx o ||||0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781760633752 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781760297787 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC5144772 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL5144772 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)1013822489 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| -- | pn |
| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HV9872 .S43 2017 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 994.01 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Seal, Graham. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Great Convict Stories : |
| Remainder of title | Dramatic and Moving Tales from Australia's Brutal Early Years. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Sydney : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Allen & Unwin, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2018. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Praise -- Also by the author -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps -- Prologue: Lashland -- Introduction -- 1 Unpromising Beginnings -- Trouble on the Way -- The Hungry Land -- The Orgy That Wasn't -- Encountering Others -- Laying Down the Law -- A Practical Problem -- The Lure of Gold -- This Solitary Waste of the Creation -- Free by Servitude -- A Meek and Tender Wife -- The Last First Fleeters -- 2 Perilous Voyager -- A Sight Truly Shocking -- Irish Rebels -- The Fever Ships -- Attacked by America -- The Might-Have-Been Mutiny -- A Melancholy Mystery -- Skeleton Island -- 3 The Convict Underworld -- Wife for Sale -- Convict Magic -- Mrs Gravy's Husbands -- Special Treatment -- Stitches in Time -- No Common Criminal -- The Flash -- Skin Deep -- The Jury Guilty Found Her -- 4 The System -- The Hulks -- The Dogline -- Canaries and Magpies -- Obtaining a Wife -- The Convict's Lament -- The Ironed Gang -- The Innocence of Thomas Drewery -- 'The Most Absurd, Prodigal, and Impracticable Vision' -- 5 Pain and Suffering -- Hanged Three Times -- The Lash -- The Treadmill -- The Iron Collar -- Whipping Boy -- The Hanged Boy -- One Hundred Lashes -- To Plough Van Diemen's Land -- 6 Troublemakers -- Botany Bay Hero -- Thrown Unpitied and Friendless Upon the World -- The Beast of Goat Island -- Nymphs of the Pave -- Flash Mob at the Cascades -- The Patriots -- The Old Lags' Hero -- The Ghost Poet -- 7 Places of Condemnation -- Pluto's Land -- The Rats' Nest -- Coal River -- The Norfolk Island Suffering of Thomas Cook -- On the Square, Ever -- The Water Rats -- A Running Fire of Curtseys -- A Convict's Dream -- Not a Bad Man at Heart -- 8 Desperate Escapes -- A Heroic Struggle for Liberty -- The Vagabond of the Woods -- Charlotte the Pirate -- A Taste for Flesh -- From Hell's Gate to Chile -- The Great Escaper -- Rebel Heroes. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 9 The Felonry -- The Man Who Invented Australia's Beer -- The Real Artful Dodger -- The Botany Bay Rothschild -- The Legend of Margaret Catchpole -- The Convict King -- The Solicitor's Tale -- A Convict Maid -- A Broken Down Gent -- The Poacher's Fate -- 10 A Convict Stain -- Tom Tilley's Token -- The First Australia Day -- Floating Brothels -- The Stain That Would Not Fade -- The Cabbage Tree Mob -- Bottoms Up! -- The Gundagai Cat -- Shades of the System -- Last of the Expirees -- Appendix -- Convict locations -- Glossary -- Notes and Sources -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Credits. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Graham Seal brings to life the brutal Australian convict transportation system with stories of notorious criminals, colourful characters, and harsh punishments. There were also happy endings for the men and women for whom transportation was an opportunity to start afresh in a new land. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Penal colonies. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Prisoners-Australia. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Seal, Graham |
| Title | Great Convict Stories |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Sydney : Allen & Unwin,c2018 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781760297787 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5144772">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5144772</a> |
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