Unwilling Emigrants

by Alexandra Hasluck

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About the Book

In 1931 a small bundle of tattered letters was found during the demolition of an old police building. The letters, from Myra Sykes to her convict husband William, tell a tale of heartbreak and longing. Sentenced to penal servitude in the far off colony of Western Australia, William Sykes came to know the privations and pain of convict life, and Myra his abandonment. Alexandra Hasluck tells the story of Sykes and his fellow convicts — unwilling emigrants every one of them — with imagination and compassion.

Categories

History, Biography & Autobiography

Publication Year

2002

Edition

3rd

Publisher

Fremantle Press

ISBN11

1 86368 395 X

ISBN13

9 781863 683951

HB/PB

Paperback

Format

C Format (228mm x 158mm)

Pages

256

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