Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye (Authored by David W. Cameron)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye Author: David W. Cameron Narrator: Ant Neate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Australia & Oceania Publisher's Summary: Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O'Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and who was forced to work in the treacherous coal mines. Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.