The true story of ten convicts who escaped from Sarah Island — the Macquarie Harbour penal station on Tasmania's remote west coast, regarded as the most brutal of Van Diemen's Land's convict establishments — by stealing the brig they had helped to build, and sailing it across the Pacific Ocean to Chile without a map or a chronometer.
The ringleader was Jimmy Porter, a resourceful and audacious schemer whose account of the escape became one of the most remarkable documents of the convict era. Porter and his men managed what should have been impossible — crossing the world's most dangerous ocean in an untested vessel, navigating by instinct and improvisation, to reach South America and brief freedom.
Written by Peter Grose and published in 2020, Ten Rogues draws on Porter's own account and the colonial records to reconstruct the escape in full.
BOOK DETAILS
- Softcover.
- 229 pages, indexed.
- Published 2020.
CONDITION
New.
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