From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories

by Mark McKenna

Book Overview

March 1797. Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria. Five British sailors and twelve Bengali seamen swim ashore after their longboat is ripped apart in a storm. The British penal colony at Port Jackson is 700 kilometres to the north, their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove stranded far to the south on a tiny island in Bass Strait. To rescue them and save their own lives, they have no alternative. They set out to walk to Sydney. What follows is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522862594
• ISBN13: 9780522862591
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Miegunyah Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.2"