Bedlam at Botany Bay / James Dunk.

What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politic...

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Main Author: Dunk, James (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney NSW : New South, 2019.
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