Great Convict Stories : Dramatic and Moving Tales from Australia's Brutal Early Years.

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.

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.

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.