ISBN: 9780949206947 - unwilling emigrants (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some creasing to first page. Faint marks on foredges. Body text and binding are still very good. This book was inspired by the discovery of a tattered bundle of letters. The letters were written by Myra Sykes to her husband William who had been transported to the Swan River Colony. In the 1850s, the Swan River Colony settlers were desperate for labour and were petitioning the British government to send convicts. Alexandra Hasluck uses William Sykes as an example of the "prototype" convict. …