Our 2024 impact report is here! Read now

Convict-era Port Arthur by David W. Cameron

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Convict-era Port Arthur

Misery of the deepest dye

by David W. Cameron

Narrator Ant Neate

This audiobook uses AI narration.

We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more

Length 12 hours 2 minutes

Language English

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Summary
About the author
About the narrator

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.

History Nonfiction

David W. Cameron (Author)
David W. Cameron received his PhD in biological anthropology in 1995 at the Australian National University and is a former Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the Department of Anatomy & Histology, University of Sydney. He has conducted fieldwork in Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He is the author of several books on Australian military history and primate evolutionary biology and has published over 60 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals. He lives in Canberra.

Ant Neate (Reader)
Ant Neate is a Melbourne based Actor & Voice Artist. He has a life long love of Shakespeare, Theatre and Performance.

Apart from the thousands of Voice Overs in the last 25 years along with teaching and directing, his screen credits include Love and Other Catastrophes, Chameleon, Secret Life of Us, Bad Eggs, Neighbours and Evil Never Dies.

His stage credits include Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Stagedoor, Life of Celand Life and death of Yorick the fool