The Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse by Michael Crowley

The Stony Ground: The Remembered Life of Convict James Ruse

Michael Crowley

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The Stony Ground is the story of Cornish farmworker James Ruse, reprieved from the hangman's noose and transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet in 1788. Ruse, commemorated as a pioneer in his adopted country, was reputedly the first prisoner a...

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