num_pages: 688
description: They came from England - thieves felons murderers justly and unjustly accused - human cargo destined to hack a life from the harsh Australian wilderness. Packed into the teemed holds of His Majesty's ships. they sailed treacherous seas to the icy desolation of Antarctica to the South Cape of Tasmania to Captain Cook's anchorage in Botany Bay. It was a cruel violent fate for fifteen-year-old Jenny Taggart. Falsely accused of theft she was torn from her loved ones a beautiful child among hardened convicts an innocent in the craft of survival.Betrayed by her beauty sustained by courage she would endure to become Queen of the Convicts target of passion and vengeance in a raw merciless land...
language: English
title: The Exiles
publisher: Dell