Merciless Place, A: The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster in Africa and How it Led to the Settlement of Australia

In this book, the author has found the ‘missing link’ between the American Revolution and The Fatal Shore, and tells the extraordinary story – lost for two centuries – of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales.

448 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., maps ; 24 cm. #070122