ISBN: 9780702236860
Blackgum Item Code: UQP01
Title: Tour to Hell
Author: David Levell
Imprint: University of Qld Press
RRP: $34.95
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All colonies are built on dreams - and imagination was the only real freedom enjoyed by convicts brutally transported to Australia in the early days of white settlement.

As David Levell brings to light in this engaging account of Australia's convict years, escape myths were common currency in the young colony. The first convicts from Ireland believed China was just a few days' walk north of Sydney. Others were convinced a white civilisation existed nearby in the bush, or that Timor was a short distance overland. Many convicts fled in quest of such places, sure they would be offered sanctuary or a way home.