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Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye by David W. Cameron
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501747 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye
Author: David W. Cameron
Narrator: Ant Neate
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1
Genres: Australia & Oceania
Publisher's Summary:
Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501747 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye
Author: David W. Cameron
Narrator: Ant Neate
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Release date: June 1, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1
Genres: Australia & Oceania
Publisher's Summary:
Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.