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- The evil men do / by Robbins, David,1950-; Compton, Ralph.;
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- Subjects: Western stories.; United States. Marshals Service; Bounty hunters; Penal transportation;
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- Banished. [videorecording] / by Buring, MyAnna,1984-actor.; Duggan, Shaun,screenwriter.; McGovern, Jimmy,screenwriter.; Percival, Dan,television director.; Rhind-Tutt, Julian,1968-actor.; Tovey, Russell,actor.; Walker, Jeffrey,1982-television director.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.,publisher.; RSJ Films,production company.; See-Saw Films,production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,film distributor.;
Julian Rhind-Tutt, Myanna Buring, Russell Tovey.In his latest TV drama Banished, writer Jimmy McGovern tells a brutal story about the first British convicts to be transported to Australia. A story of survival set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in 1788.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.- Subjects: Historical television programs.; Penal colonies; Prisoners; Prisons; Television programs.;
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- The exiles : a novel / by Kline, Christina Baker,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to 'the land beyond the seas,' Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel--a skilled midwife and herbalist--is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Exile (Punishment); Women; Female friendship; Penal colonies;
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