Convict-Era Port Arthur by Cameron, David W.

Convict-Era Port Arthur (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143795100)

Vendor: David W. Cameron
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$34.95
$34.95
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Convict-Era Port Arthur by Cameron, David W.

Convict-Era Port Arthur

$34.95
Convict-Era Port Arthur by Cameron, David W.

Convict-Era Port Arthur

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.

Author: David W. Cameron
ISBN-10: 0143795104
ISBN-13: 9780143795100
Publisher: Viking Australia
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2021
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 1.40d
By David W. Cameron
By David W. Cameron
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David W. Cameron received his PhD in biological anthropology in 1995 at the Australian National University and is a former Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the Department of Anatomy & Histology, University of Sydney. He has conducted fieldwork in Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He is the author of several books on Australian military history and primate evolutionary biology and has published over 60 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals. He lives in Canberra.

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