Bedlam at Botany Bay
$33.28
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2019
Summary
Madness and Mayhem: Unraveling Bedlam at Botany Bay
Winner of the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier’s History Awards 2020
Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History
Shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association’s Kay Daniels Award
Madness stalked the colony of New South Wales and tracing its wild path changes the way…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742236179 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742236170 |
| Author: | James Dunk |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 231mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Bedlam at Botany Bay is a page-turner. A cascade of vivid case studies and their tragi-comic impact on the penal colony carries the reader forward as James Dunk’s forensic but compassionate examination reveals the interior - and exterior - madness of humanity in early Sydney…Don’t miss it.’ - Babette Smith, The Australian
About The Author
James Dunk
James Dunk is a historian and writer living and working in Sydney, on Gadigal country. A research fellow at the University of Sydney and a conjoint fellow at the University of Newcastle, James is a frequent contributor to the Australian Book Review.
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