Not much attempt had been made to enforce discipline among the women, many of them London prostitutes, who had turned the ship into a floating brothel at her various ports of call.'In July 1789...more details Format:Paperback
This is the story of the women, the voyage, and life in early convict Australia. Based on research into contemporary sources such as the convicts' trial records - most of them were prostitutes or petty thieves - and the first-hand account of the voyage written by the ship's steward...more details Format:Paperback
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Sian Rees
ISBN:9780701185077
Daniel Defoe's fictional heroine Moll Flanders is famous for her criminal and sexual adventures, racily portrayed on big and small screens. But who was she? And what world did she really inhabit? To answer these questions Moll takes its readers on a journey of literary and historical detection...more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
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Sian Rees
ISBN:9780733615276
Two generations of Paraguayan citizens reviled her but a third would seize upon her as a patriotic idol and exhume her grave in Paris for reburial with full military honours in Asuncion...more details Format:Paperback
As dusk came down on the evening of 13 January 1834, James Porter and nine other convicts, transported at His Majesty's Pleasure to Van Diemen's Land...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Sian Rees
ISBN:9780733619144
As dusk came down on the evening of 13 January 1834, James Porter and nine other convicts, transported at His Majesty's Pleasure to Van Diemen's Land...more details Format:Paperback / softback
When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to 'repatriate' freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. 'Is it possible'...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Sian Rees
ISBN:9781584659808
The little-known story of the Royal Navy squadron that patrolled the African coast for fifty years, capturing vessels and emancipating slaves...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:360
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Sian Rees
ISBN:9780755315178
In July 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Botany Bay in Australia on board a ship called The Lady Julian, destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank. Based on research and the first-hand account of the voyage written by the ship's steward...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Sian Rees
ISBN:9780786867875
This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Botany Bay a year later. The women...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:236
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REES SIAN
ISBN:9780733624636
In July 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Botany Bay in Australia on board a ship called The Lady Julian, destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank for the men already there. This is the enthralling story of the women and their voyage. Based on painstaking research into contemporary sources such as letters...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Rees Sian
ISBN:9781845951177
When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to 'repatriate' freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. 'Is it possible...more details Format:Paperback / softback