Ten rogues : the unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile

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Ten rogues : the unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile

Title remainder

the unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile

Statement of responsibility

Peter Grose

Title variation

10 rogues

Creator

• Grose, Peter, 1941-

Author

• Grose, Peter, 1941-

Subject

• Escaped prisoners -- Tasmania
• Escapes -- Sarah Island | Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
• Escapes -- Tasmania -- History
• Escapes -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
• Exiles -- Australia | Tasmania -- History
• Fugitives from justice -- Biography
• Norfolk Island -- History -- 19th century
• Penal colonies -- Australia -- History
• Penal colonies -- Norfolk Island
• Penal colonies -- Norfolk Island -- History -- 19th century
• Penal colonies -- Sarah Island | Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
• Australia -- History
• Porter, James, active 1823-1843
• Prisoners -- Australia -- History
• Prisoners -- Biography
• Prisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Prisoners -- Norfolk Island -- History -- 19th century
• Prisoners -- Sarah Island | Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
• Prisoners -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
• Tasmania -- History
• Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
• Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Australian

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

From the grim docks of 19th century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, incompetents and larrikin convicts of the highest order, Ten Rogues is an unexpected and wickedly entertaining story from the great annals of Australia's colonial history. With the lightness of touch of the master storyteller that he is, Peter Grose brings to irresistible life the story of a small band of convicts who managed to escape the living hell of the Tasmanian penal colony of Sarah Island. Their getaway began by stealing the leaky and untested brig they had helped to build, and then sailing it across the Pacific from Tasmania to Chile with neither a map nor a chronometer. But their story does not begin or end there. From the strong connection between the slave trade and convict 'transportation' to the possible illegality of the whole convict system, Ten Rogues shines a light into some dark and previously well-hidden corners of colonial history

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

994.02

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult