Most perfectly safe : the convict shipwreck disasters of 1833-42 / G.A. Mawer
- Bib ID:
- 1390272
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mawer, G. A. (G. Allen), 1943-
- Description:
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- St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1997
- xiii, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1864481862
- Summary:
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Allen Mawer takes us back to Australia's colonial past to vividly describe what life was really like on a convict transport - and conduct an investigation into a train of disasters that, were they to occur today, would at least be worth a Royal Commission and might put paid to a political career or two. This lively account of the convict trade in the 1830s and the shipwrecks that plunged it into crisis is the first full-scale account of the experiences of the convicts (both men and women), the guards and crew, the civil servants who ran the system and the businessmen who profited from it.
- Full contents:
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- 1. A Convict Voyage in the 1830s
- 2. The Heyday of Transportation
- 3. Doing More with Less
- 4. Amphitrite
- 5. George III
- 6. Neva
- 7. Hive
- 8. The Authorities Consider
- 9. Waterloo
- 10. The System Winds Down.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-182) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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