Against the Wind

by Michael Mangan and Mike Mangan

Never before or since has there been such an outlandish proposition-sail 10,500 miles and start a colony from scratch with just convicts. By 1835, about 90 per cent of Sydney's white population was either convicts, ex-convicts, the children of convicts, or those married to a convict. About 1,000 convicts (2.5 per cent of the population) fled inland and became bushrangers, and 4 per cent of the population was jailers. How does that place end up as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524520160
• ISBN13: 9781524520168
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Xlibris Au
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"