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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Escape from Botany Bay : The True Story of Mary Bryant
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In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat. -- Kinetica catalogue record.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Orchard Books ,
      2003 .
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 0439403278 (alk. paper), 2002035594

Works about this Work

The Children's Hour : Down Under Gay Toltl Kinman , 2004-2005 single work review
— Appears in: Mystery Readers Journal , Winter vol. 20 no. 4 2004-2005; (p. 50-52)

— Review of Incognito Claire Carmichael , 2000 single work novel ; The Boys from Bondi Alan Collins , 1987 single work novel ; Escape from Botany Bay : The True Story of Mary Bryant Gerald Hausman , Loretta Hausman , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Guitar Highway Rose Brigid Lowry , 1997 single work novel ; Winter John Marsden , 2000 single work novel ; The Cats Joan Phipson , 1976 single work children's fiction ; Saving Aunt Alice Claire Carmichael , 2001 single work children's fiction
The Children's Hour : Down Under Gay Toltl Kinman , 2004-2005 single work review
— Appears in: Mystery Readers Journal , Winter vol. 20 no. 4 2004-2005; (p. 50-52)

— Review of Incognito Claire Carmichael , 2000 single work novel ; The Boys from Bondi Alan Collins , 1987 single work novel ; Escape from Botany Bay : The True Story of Mary Bryant Gerald Hausman , Loretta Hausman , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Guitar Highway Rose Brigid Lowry , 1997 single work novel ; Winter John Marsden , 2000 single work novel ; The Cats Joan Phipson , 1976 single work children's fiction ; Saving Aunt Alice Claire Carmichael , 2001 single work children's fiction
Last amended 14 Jul 2003 16:16:22
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  • Botany Bay, Botany area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1791
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