Warwick Hirst's The Man Who Stole the Cyprus: A True Story of Escape PDF

By Warwick Hirst

ISBN-10: 1877058610

ISBN-13: 9781877058615

at the night of 14 August 1829 the govt. brig Cyprus was once sheltering in Recherche Bay at the distant south-east coast of Tasmania while she was once captured by means of eighteen convicts less than the management of William Swallow, a prisoner for all times. 8 years past he had stowed away on a boat to England in simple terms to be finally arrested and despatched to Hobart for the second one time. After marooning the team, army shield and passengers at the desolate shore, Swallow skilfully sailed the brig around the Pacific to Tahiti then again to the Tongan Islands and directly to Japan ahead of eventually scuttling her off the chinese language coast.

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