Warwick Hirst: 1 book
Man who stole the Cyprus
A True Story of Escape
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership of William Swallow, a prisoner for life. Eight years earlier he had stowed away on a ship to England only...
