The Transportation, Escape And Pardoning Of Mary Bryant (Née Broad)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
One of history's most audacious true stories of survival and defiance, the remarkable account of Mary Bryant — born Mary Broad — chronicles the extraordinary journey of a Cornish woman condemned to transportation to the brutal penal colony of New South Wales in 1788, only to mastermind one of the most daring escapes in colonial history. Convicted of highway robbery, Mary endured the harrowing voyage aboard the First Fleet, the hardships of early Sydney Cove, and the desperate circumstances that drove her to commandeer a small boat and navigate over 3,000 miles of treacherous open ocean toward freedom, accompanied by her husband, two young children, and a handful of fellow convicts. C. H. Currey, drawing on meticulous historical research and his distinguished academic credentials, presents a rigorous yet compelling narrative that illuminates the brutal machinery of 18th-century British justice and the indomitable human spirit it failed to crush. This work stands as a vital contribution to Australian colonial history, rescuing Mary Bryant from the footnotes of empire and restoring her to her rightful place as one of the era's most compelling figures — a woman whose courage and cunning left even the authorities who recaptured her moved to seek her pardon. Published by the venerable Angus and Robertson, this is essential reading for anyone drawn to the raw, untamed origins of a nation, and to the question of what a person will dare when survival demands everything.
Author: C. H. Currey
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
One of history's most audacious true stories of survival and defiance, the remarkable account of Mary Bryant — born Mary Broad — chronicles the extraordinary journey of a Cornish woman condemned to transportation to the brutal penal colony of New South Wales in 1788, only to mastermind one of the most daring escapes in colonial history. Convicted of highway robbery, Mary endured the harrowing voyage aboard the First Fleet, the hardships of early Sydney Cove, and the desperate circumstances that drove her to commandeer a small boat and navigate over 3,000 miles of treacherous open ocean toward freedom, accompanied by her husband, two young children, and a handful of fellow convicts. C. H. Currey, drawing on meticulous historical research and his distinguished academic credentials, presents a rigorous yet compelling narrative that illuminates the brutal machinery of 18th-century British justice and the indomitable human spirit it failed to crush. This work stands as a vital contribution to Australian colonial history, rescuing Mary Bryant from the footnotes of empire and restoring her to her rightful place as one of the era's most compelling figures — a woman whose courage and cunning left even the authorities who recaptured her moved to seek her pardon. Published by the venerable Angus and Robertson, this is essential reading for anyone drawn to the raw, untamed origins of a nation, and to the question of what a person will dare when survival demands everything.