Escape from Botany Bay
Subtitle: the true story of Mary Bryant
By: Gerald & Loretta Hausman.
Contributors: Hausman, Loretta.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Bryant, Mary, b. 1765 -- Juvenile fiction.; Bryant, Mary, b. 1765 -- Fiction.; Prisoners -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Penal colonies -- Australia.; Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([copyright page]).