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Sydney, Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1988. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, frontispiece map, few small scratches front cover, minor edgewear. 126 pp. The memoir of John Mitchel, an Irish nationalist who participated in the 1848 uprising, who was transported to Tasmania in 1850. This book mainly concerns his confinement for three years as a political prisoner in Van Diemen's Land. He escaped and made his way to New York. The editor, Peter O'Shaughnessy, states that he examined the text of John Mitchel's 'Jail Journalâ, published in Mitchel's newspaper 'The Citizen' in New York in 1854 (from copies in the New York Public Library and the State Library of Tasmania, Hobart.) However, the main source for the text published here is the edition published by M. H. Gill & Son Ltd, Dublin, 1913. In this present edition, Chapters 1 and 2 are selected from the first 14 chapters, and…
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The Gardens of Hell : John Mitchel in Van Diemen's Land 1850-53.
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Sydney: Kangaroo Press. 1988. 128pp, illustrated. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0864171919 ***Edited account drawn from Mitchel's Jail Journal (1854 & 1913) focussing on his time in Van Diemen's Land as a political prisoner following the Young Ireland agitations of the late 1840s. .
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- Keywords convicts, ireland, tasmania, Van Diemen's Land
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Sydney, Australia: Kangaroo Press, 1988. Small previous owners stamp to front free endpaper. 128 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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