The story of Cornish farmworker James Ruse, reprieved from the hangman\'s noose and transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet in 1788.
A highly original narrative of exile and survival from rural England to New South Wales and the Tasman Sea filling a gap in the literature of transportation and dramatising a key period in British penal history..
The story of Cornish farmworker James Ruse, reprieved from the hangman\'s noose and transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet in 1788