[Download PDF] The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History By Adam Courtenay
The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History
By : Adam Courtenay
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The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia?s best-loved storyteller In 1828, James Porter, sailor, chancer, illywhacker, found himself on a ship bound for Van Diemen's Land, having been convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Sarah Island, known in Van Diemen's Land as 'hell on earth'. Many tried to escape the island; few succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that Sarah Island would closed down and the prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Commandeering the ship they'd been building to transport them to Port Arthur, the escapees 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 an
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Author : Adam Courtenay
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Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B077V4TMNS
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