Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
His Natural Life
Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For the Term of His Natural Life
Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
For the Term of His Natural Life
Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
For the Term of His Natural Life
Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734016193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734016193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
For the Term of His Natural Life
Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Searching for the Secret River
Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obse...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obse...
The Secret River
Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...
The Natural
Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 146680503X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era—and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which—now that he has done it!—looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology."
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 146680503X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era—and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which—now that he has done it!—looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology."
The Broad Arrow
Author: Caroline Woolmer Leakey
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Woolmer was a British author who spent 5 years in Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's land). At the time the island state was used to house life prisoners in the notorious Port Arthur prison on its extreme Southernmost tip. Her first and only novel focuses on a lifer prisoner there
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Woolmer was a British author who spent 5 years in Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's land). At the time the island state was used to house life prisoners in the notorious Port Arthur prison on its extreme Southernmost tip. Her first and only novel focuses on a lifer prisoner there
The Ship That Never Was
Author: Adam Courtenay
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460708849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth. Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Wresting control of the ship they'd been building to transport them to their fresh hell, the escapees instead sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale. The Ship That Never Was is the entertaining and rollicking story of what is surely the greatest escape in Australian colonial history. James Porter, whose memoirs were the inspiration for Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life, is an original Australian larrikin whose ingenuity, gift of the gab and refusal to buckle under authority make him an irresistible anti-hero who deserves a place in our history.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460708849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth. Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Wresting control of the ship they'd been building to transport them to their fresh hell, the escapees instead sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale. The Ship That Never Was is the entertaining and rollicking story of what is surely the greatest escape in Australian colonial history. James Porter, whose memoirs were the inspiration for Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life, is an original Australian larrikin whose ingenuity, gift of the gab and refusal to buckle under authority make him an irresistible anti-hero who deserves a place in our history.