Beautiful bodies
By: Gerald Stone.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781405039468
Subjects: Shipwrecks -- France -- Boulogne; Penal transportation -- New South Wales -- History; Transportation of convicts -- Australia; Women prisoners -- Transportation -- England; Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
Other titles: Beautiful bodies :
Description: In August 1833, the Amphitrite, a small convict ship bound for the colonies of Australia, was wrecked in a terrible storm on the coast of France. She carried 102 female prisoners, 12 of their children, along with the captain, the crew, a medical officer and his wife. Only three people survived.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-327).