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The Ship That Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History by Adam Courtenay (Paperback, 2018)

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But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape.

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The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth. Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Wresting control of the ship they'd been building to transport them to their fresh hell, the escapees instead sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale. The Ship That Never Was is the entertaining and rollicking story of what is surely the greatest escape in Australian colonial history. James Porter, whose memoirs were the inspiration for Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life, is an original Australian larrikin whose ingenuity, gift of the gab and refusal to buckle under authority make him an irresistible anti-hero who deserves a place in our history.

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ABC Books
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9780733338571
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Author
Adam Courtenay
Publication Name
The Ship That Never Was: the Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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210mm
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153mm
Item Weight
410g

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Adam Courtenay
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It was an interesting book full of history but a lot of it was guesswork. We were left hanging because we didn't get to the truths of what actually happened. Regardless I enjoyed the book.
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