Author: REILLY, BERNARD.
Title: A True History of Bernard Reilly A Returned Convict Who Was Transported In the Year 1824 For Fourteen Years And has lately returned from Exile with an Account of His Sufferings, &c, &c.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 8; illustrated title page, 2 text illustrations, bound in original stiff printed wrappers, fine copy. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 1988. Nothing is known about the author of this pamphlet. It is possible that he was not the convict he claimed to be. Transportation was a topical issue in the late 1930s and prospective authors had an eager market. Fictional or not, the pamphlet typifies those widely circulated in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s.
Keywords: gea transportation tasmania Australian convict history
Title: A True History of Bernard Reilly A Returned Convict Who Was Transported In the Year 1824 For Fourteen Years And has lately returned from Exile with an Account of His Sufferings, &c, &c.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 8; illustrated title page, 2 text illustrations, bound in original stiff printed wrappers, fine copy. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 1988. Nothing is known about the author of this pamphlet. It is possible that he was not the convict he claimed to be. Transportation was a topical issue in the late 1930s and prospective authors had an eager market. Fictional or not, the pamphlet typifies those widely circulated in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s.
Keywords: gea transportation tasmania Australian convict history
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 119222
- Book number: 119222