Stony Ground

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.

Povestea muncitorului agricol din Cornish James Ruse, preluata de latul spanzuratorului si transportata la Golful Botany pe prima flota in 1788. O naratiune foarte originala a exilului si supravietuirii din Anglia rurala in New South Wales si Marea Tasmaniei, umpland un gol in literatura de specialitate. de transport si de dramatizare a unei perioade cheie din istoria penala britanica.