Author: CLARKE, MARCUS.
Title: For the Term of his Natural Life. (Australian Classics series).
Description: London: Angus & Robertson, 1979. 0207140731. Unabridged edition with introduction by Hilary Lofting and 45 full-page illustrations. "The grim and tragic story of life in an Australian penal colony..Clarke had studied the records of "the System" and nothing he describes was too cruel or brutal to have happened under it. One convict is mercilessly flogged to death; another is racked on the torture stretcher; others are driven insane and to cannibalism." Pp.xviii/657, portrait frontispiece + 45 full-page illustrations by Hilary Lofting, owner's name to front free endpaper. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper has sunning to spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/Good.

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