Tag: Convict

Free Download Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes (Author/Narrator)
Feb 02, 2024 | English | ASIN: B0CP9TTNW2 | 13 hrs 12 mins | M4B & MP3 @126 kbps
720 to 727 MB | Unabridged | Retail
In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, men and women who forged the nation we would one day become.
There’s Joseph Banks, the true founder of the colony; Surgeon John White, the saviour of the First Fleet; Pemulwuy, the Bidjigal freedom fighter; Mary Reiby, the horse thief who made good; Sapy Lovell, the Eora gypsy convict; John Donohue, the wild colonial boy; Lady Jane Franklin, the true leader of Van Diemen’s Land – and many more!

Free Download Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
English | October 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 176147037X | 336 pages | True EPUB | 4.71 MB
Australia’s most amazing characters of the convict age.

Free Download Lucy Frost, "Convict Orphans: The heartbreaking stories of the colony’s forgotten children, and those who succeeded against all odds"
English | ISBN: 1761067680 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost’s painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans.

Free Download Kevin Todd, "The Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard"
English | ISBN: 1856359816 | 2013 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The Neva sailed from Cork on January 8,1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On May 13, 1835 she sank with the loss of 224 lives. The authors have comprehensively researched sources in Ireland, Australia, and the UK to reconstruct in fascinating detail the stories of these women. Most perished beneath the ocean waves, but for others the journey from their poverty stricken and criminal pasts continued towards hope of freedom and prosperity on the far side of the world.