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Title: Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse
Author: CROWLEY MICHAEL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 20/06/2018
Imprint: WATERSIDE PRESS
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Ruse, commemorated as a pioneer in his adopted country, was reputedly the first prisoner ashore, carrying an officer on his back. Eventually pardoned, at Experiment Farm he became Australia’s first settled farmer, the first ex-convict to be granted land and the first settler to become self-sufficient, bringing him into conflict with indigenous people. In this gripping historical novel the life of Australia’s most symbolic convict is described in Ruse’s own voice.
ISBN: 9781909976573
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm
Pages: 200