Author: George Forbes
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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"Under the Broad Arrow" is a riveting tale depicting life during the slave trade era in the eighteenth century. It revolves around the two main characters John Fitch and Jane New, with seemingly intertwined lives. The two are first married under very dubious circumstances in which John, an older naval officer with good family connections hopes to exploit the younger Jane, whose family history is nothing to speak of. When Jane is convicted of a crime, her 'husband' finds a loophole to disavow their marriage and Jane is shipped off to the colonies as a slave where she finds a new life and remarries to James New. But trouble is in the offing when a chance encounter of the two former lovers occurs. One that is sure to reignite the bitter feelings of the past...
Author: Oline Keese
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 192089974X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel’s title describes the arrow that was stamped onto government property, including the clothes worn by convict – a symbol of shame and incarceration. With its ‘fallen woman’ protagonist, its gothic undertones and its exploration of the social and moral implications of the penal system, this little-known novel gives an insight into a significant chapter of Australian history from a uniquely female perspective. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886, restoring for the first time in over a century the complete original text of Leakey’s important work.
Author: Ian D. Skennerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949749437
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Languages : en
Pages : 1370
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Author: Samuel F. Manning
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN: 9781934982136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author/illustrator Sam Manning has brought to life a period in history which makes this book valuable, but not simply because you will understand how the shipbuilding industry worked from the 1600s?1800s. Manning shows what governments were doing, why, and how it directly parallels the twentieth- and twenty-first century policies of nations to spend blood and treasure to ensure they can control the supply of natural resources for their national security. With 1600s Europe unable to supply the big tall masts needed for their navies, Great Britain established a policy of marking trees in New England which were specifically the Crown's, to be cut, processed, and shipped back to England. Without proper masts, the navy could not carry sails to propel their ships'much like the need for oil today.
Author: William Oldnall Russell
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Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Author: Leonard George Carr Laughton
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Author: Great Britain
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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