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Author Levell, David.

Title Tour to hell : convict Australia's great escape myths / David Levell
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2008

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  994.02 Lev/Tth  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL  994.02 Lev/Tth  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 303 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Contents Contents: The hopeful fraternity -- An evil which will cure itself -- Thoughts of liberty -- The greatest villains on earth -- The phantom white colony -- Checking this spirit of emigration -- The opinion of the common people -- Their natural vicious propensities -- King of the mountains -- Almost superhuman efforts -- Wild and madlike plans -- The fatal excursions of John Place -- Daemons and chimeras -- Boundless regions open to our sight -- Full march for Timor -- Mistaken and dangerous men -- Buckley's and none -- This fancied paradise
Notes All colonies are built on dreams - and imagination was the only real freedom enjoyed by convicts brutally transported to Australia in the early days of white settlement
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 263-268
Subject Prisoners -- Australia -- History.
Escapes -- Australia -- History.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
ISBN 9780702236860 (paperback)