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For The Term Of His Natural Life: Marcus Clarke

For The Term Of His Natural Life: Marcus Clarke

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Richard Dawes, born to wealth and comfort, is transported to the convict island of Tasmania on a charge of murder, a charge of which he is innocent - and against which he cannot defend himself without betraying his own mother. Broken and disastrously changed by his treatment and 'the system', Dawes nevertheless survives the horrors of the transportation system and the hardships of a struggling new society - a fate so awful that many convicts hanged themselves rather than suffer it. The tale of Dawes' disturbing and brutal hardships unfolds against the backdrops of Port Arthur, Macquarie Harbour and the infamous Norfolk Island - a panorama of floggings, rape, mutiny, disease, escape - and even cannibalism. This work, first published in 1874, was written with the aim of exposing evil by means of a frontal attack on the emotions and has long been regarded as one of the masterpieces of Australian literature.

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Modern Literature, Paperback; Tasmanian Book Company 1995; no spine creases; light toning of age block; very faint shelfwear; tightly bound and clean within
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