The Exiles, Volume 1

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Doubleday Australia
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Edition: Reprint

Description: 548 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. Because It Is Written As A Novel, A Number Of Fictional Characters Have Been Created And Superimposed On The Narrative, But The Basic Story Of The First Fleet And Their Establishment Of The Colony Of Sydney Is Factually And Historically Accurate.

Publishers Description: They came from England - thieves, felons, murderers, justly and unjustly accused - human cargo destined to hack a life from the harsh Australian wilderness. Packed into the teemed holds of His Majestys ships. they sailed treacherous seas to the icy desolation of Antarctica, to the South Cape of Tasmania, to Captain Cooks anchorage in Botany Bay.It was a cruel, violent fate for fifteen-year-old Jenny Taggart. Falsely accused of theft, she was torn from her loved ones, a beautiful child among hardened convicts, an innocent in the craft of survival.Betrayed by her beauty, sustained by courage, she would endure to become Queen of the Convicts, target of passion and vengeance in a raw, merciless land...

ISBN: 0868240176