Convicts Unbound : the story of the Calcutta convicts and their settlement in Australia. by TIPPING, Marjorie - 1988

Ringwood, Vic: Viking O'Neil, 1988. Printed in double column. xiii, 353pp, b/w ills throughout, notes, five appendices, bibliography, index, end-paper maps: Van Diemen's Land. Olive cloth boards in dust-jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket inc 1cm tear at top of rear spine fold, some minor silverfishing to bottom edge of boards. The book traces 'the lives and experiences of the specially selected 308 convicts transported in HMS Calcutta in 1803. The convicts arrived at Port Phillip and moved to the Derwent where they began the settlement which became Hobart. As social history, the book reveals much about the interchanges between felon and free, male and female, in early colonial days. The work also includes meticulous biographies of every Calcutta convict, with many surnames of the thousands of descendants.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Ringwood; Viking O'Neil; 1988.. First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xiv, 353; map endpapers, numerous b/w illustrations, appendices, acknowledgements, bibliography, index, bound in original mustard cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket with minor chipping on edges, very good copy. The book traces the lives and experiences of the specially selected 308 convicts transported in H.M.S. Calcutta on arriving in Port Phillip in 1803. Several unforeseen circumstances caused the convicts to be moved to the Derwent where they began the settlement which became Hobart. The fates of these convicts were fascinatingly diverse. Some, when free, returned to their homeland, while others settled in Sydney or took to the high seas as traders, sealers or pirates. Others became bushrangers, secondary offenders or succumbed to the grog and lost their land grants. But most prospered and many became more successful than the free settlers they had been sent to serve.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Viking O'Neil, 1988. 353 pages with b/w illustrations. Traces the lives and experiences of the specially selected 308 convicts transported in H.M.S. Calcutta in 1803. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.