Title: A long way home
Description: "Born a fisherman's daughter in 18th century Cornwall, poverty and ambition drove Mary Broad to become a daring highwaywoman. Arrested and tried, she was sentenced to be transported on the first convict fleet sent to the unknown continent of Australia. Despite brutality and starvation, she survived, married and had children and, with her husband, Will Bryant, stole an open boat and sailed 3,500 miles over unknown oceans to escape to Timor. Here she was captured by the sadistic Captain Edwards, who was hunting the Bounty mutineers, and returned, under appalling conditions, to Britain where she faced certain death in the execution yard at Newgate prison."

"A Long Way Home tells the incredible and heart rending story of Mary and of the two extraordinary men whose lives became entangled with hers; the naval spy and brilliant seaman, Captain Arthur Phillip, who founded the first colony in Australia, and James Boswell, rake and biographer, who, at the end of a misspent life, found a cause worth fighting for."--Jacket.
Subjects: Biography, Convict ships, Exiles, History, Penal colonies, Prisoners, Thieves, Women prisoners, Bryant, mary, 1765-1794, Prisoners, australia, Prisoners, biography, Sailing ships, Great britain, history, 18th century
Places: Australia, Cornwall (County), England, Great Britain
People: Mary Bryant (b. 1765)
Time periods: 18th century