Author: MITCHELL, JOHN.
Title: The Gardens Of Hell. John Mitchell In Van Diemaen's Land 1850-1853. Edited By Peter O'Shaughnessy.
Description: 8vo; pp. 126, (ii); frontispiece, b/w illustrations, appendix, The Young Irelanders: biographies, biographical notes, notes, select bibliography, index; stiff illustrated wrapper, a fine copy. (Kenhurst), Kangaroo Press, (1988). lPeter O'Shaughnessy has provided an introduction and notes to this account taken from John Mitchell's Jail Journal. It deals with Mitchell's confinement, for three years, as a political prisoner in Van Diemen's Land".

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