The Sink of Iniquity: A history of education in the Amherst and Talbot districts, 1836-1862

by Douglas Wilkie

Picture this - Back Creek, as Talbot was then known, in April 1859: "Crime is frightfully on the increase in this district, and the hordes of thieves and murderers on the rush are becoming emboldened from the comparative immunity which they enjoy. At present Detective Slattery and a handful of constables are the only men to keep down hundreds of villains of the deepest dye. The report I have forwarded you, of the murderous attack on Mrs Ross, is only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1320618790
• ISBN13: 9781320618793
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Blurb
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"