TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christopher,Emma
TI  - A merciless place: the lost story of Britain's convict disaster in Africa and how it led to the settlement of Australia 
SN  - 9781742372273 (pbk.)
AV  - DU115 .C475 2010
U1  - 994.02 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Crows Nest, N.S.W.
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Land settlement
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Colonization
KW  - 1788-1900
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-427) and index; 1. Bound for America.--2. Mr Jefferson and Patrick Madan.--3. London in Flames.--4. The 'Best Sacrifices for Death'.--5. Africa.--6. Battle for the Coast.--7. Deserting the Enemy.--8. A Plantation with Slaves.--9. A Mutiny and a Most Peculiar Murder.--10. Trouble at Goree Island.--11. 'Naked and Diseased on the Sandy Shore'.--12. Trying America Again.--13. The Once Mighty Have Fallen.--14. Lemane Island.--15. The End of the African Disaster
N2  - In this book, the author has found the 'missing link' between the American Revolution and The Fatal Shore, and tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales
ER  -