But the cunningly resourceful Porter and nine other convicts escaped, hijacked a ship and crossed the perilous South Pacific to Chile, passing themselves off as shipwrecked mariners, until betrayal led to discovery. Sian Rees discovered Porter's astonishing long-forgotten writings, and, inspired by his charisma and his defiance in the face of authority, has retold his extraordinary story with all the brio of her enormously popular "The Floating Brothel".
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Sian Rees, author of the bestselling Floating Brothel, has a degree in History from Oxford and lives in Hastings.
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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. One page has been dog-eared. Faint blue mark on tail foredge. As dusk came down on the evening of 13 January 1834, James Porter and nine other convicts, transported at His Majesty's Pleasure to Van Diemen's Land, captured the newly launched barque the Frederick from their British masters. Rather than aim for a new life on the harsh islands of the Bass Straits or the isolated coasts of New Zealand, the men decided to make their way to Valdivia, on the coast of Chile. Six thousand miles away on the other side of the Pacific, surely they could evade the British and assume new identities as shipwrecked mariners? N° de réf. du vendeur TBM9780733619144
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