His Natural Life

His Natural Life PDF Author: Marcus Clarke
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Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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His Natural Life

His Natural Life PDF Author: Marcus Clarke
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Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life PDF Author: Marcus Clarke
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Languages : en
Pages : 498

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For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life PDF Author: Marcus Clarke
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Languages : en
Pages : 510

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For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life PDF Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734016193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Reproduction of the original: For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke

For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life PDF Author: Marcus Clarke
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Category : Penal colonies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Searching for the Secret River

Searching for the Secret River PDF Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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'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

The Secret River PDF Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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'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

The Natural PDF Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 146680503X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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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

The Broad Arrow PDF Author: Caroline Woolmer Leakey
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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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

The Ship That Never Was PDF Author: Adam Courtenay
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460708849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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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.