Escape from Botany Bay : the true story of Mary Bryant

Hausman, Gerald.

Book 2003

In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat.

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