For The Term Of His Natural Life

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Times House
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: Reprint

Description: 657 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: First published in 1874, a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. It follows the story of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder which he did not commit. The harsh and inhumane treatment handed out to the convicts, some of whom were transported for minor crimes, ...

ISBN: 0858356902