Ashton's Hotel
The Journal of William Baker Ashton, First Governor of the Adelaide Gaol
$41.27
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2017
Summary
South Australia was meant to be the perfect colony: free settlers, no crime, and no mental illness. But good intentions go awry. Within three years plans for a permanent gaol were well established, along with a governor to oversee it: William Baker Ashton.Researcher Rhondda Harris came upon Ashton’s long-lost journal by happy accident, and was soon absorbed by ‘The Governor’s’ handwritten pages. They told a hidden story of early Adelaide and its underbelly, of crashes and crises and crims. ‘A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743054826 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743054823 |
| Author: | Rhondda Harris |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 450g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Rhondda Harris
Rhondda Harris is a retired archaeologist. She studied at Flinders University where her honours thesis on archaeology and postcontact Indigenous Adelaide was both the start of her career and the beginning of a passion for researching the history of early Adelaide. She now works on deceased estates, sorting through the accumulations of lives. She sees this as a sort of archaeology and it is a job she loves. Rhondda moved to Adelaide in 1974, has two sons, two grandsons and a dog. Despite growing up in New South Wales, she sees Adelaide as home.
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