[LM_NET] BOOK : Escape from Botany Bay

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Hausman, Gerald & Loretta._ Escape from Botany Bay._Orchard Books, 2003 
[0-439-40327-8]
  It is 1786 and Mary is one of the many poor in England where she is arrested for 
stealing a hat.  For that crime she is sentenced to death but gets her sentence 
commuted to being shipped to Botany Bay in Australia as an experience to settle the 
new colony with prisoners.  The prison ship lays in the harbor for many month where 
Mary and her fellow prisoners live in horrid conditions.  When they get to 
Australia conditions are no better so Mary, her husband and several other prisoners 
steal a small fishing boat and sail many miles across the sea.  Where the are 
eventually captured and sent to England for a new trial.  This 220 page book show 
the horrid conditions the prisoners of that time faced.  It is based on a true 
story.  The part of the trip across the water is a great survival story.


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