The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh by James Tucker
The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh by James Tucker
The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh
by James Tucker
(Australian Classics)
Lloyd O'Neil, 1981, hardcover with illustrated boards, dust-jacket
Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs)
"This 'account of a penal exile' covers a great sweep of nineteenth century life - from the busy streets of the London underworld, to the harsh realities of the penal colony of New South Wales.
Here, in horrifying detail, are the English prison hulks; the crowded hell of the transport vessels' the cruelty of the gaolers and the overseers at the agricultural settlement at Emu Plains; the privations of the early settlers; brushes with marauding bushrangers and confrontations with tribes of 'murderous blacks'."