In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, gaolers, convicts and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, none ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Those who tried came back saying it could not be done, or did not come back at all. Or so it was believed until the brazen escape of Desmond Kale after the final vengeance of his rival, the eccentric flogging parson magistrate Matthew Stanton. At the centre of the novel is the pursuit of Kale, an Irish political prisoner and brilliant breeder of sheep, by Stanton. When it is discovered that fine wool thrives in a country of desolation the prison colony is galvanised by dreams and greed.

Published: 2005

No. pages: 638

ISBN: 9781741661149

Condition: GOOD - softcover - 745g