A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts After the American Revolution

by Emma Christopher

Book Overview

Since Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic--the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the British empire, driven by the winds of the American Revolution and the currents of the African slave trade. In A Merciless Place, Emma Christopher brilliantly captures this previously unknown story of poverty,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199782555
• ISBN13: 9780199782550
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"