The Last Supper
The creation and recreation of Alexander Pearce, the ''cannibal convict'' of Van Diemen''s Land
Alexander Pearce escaped from the remote Tasmanian penal settlement of Sarah Island in 1822, along with seven other convicts. But the mountains and thick bush proved very difficult going, and there was no game, and after a week they were starving and desperate. Weeks later Alexander Pearce was the only one who survived to reach the settled districts, having lived off the corpses of his comrades. Alexander Pearce was first recreated as a caricature of evil in Marcus Clarke''s 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life as the convict Gabbett. Since then he has been recreated in many ways, some more historically accurate, and some not, but rare…
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- ISBN: 978-3-8383-3020-4
- EAN: 9783838330204
- Produktnummer: 37660554
- Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 104 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.6 cm 173 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 173
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Craig Cormick is an award-winning author and science journalist. He has taught creative writing at University, has been a writer in residence at the Universiti Sains Malaysia and travelled to Antarctica on an Antarctic Arts Fellowship. Much of his creative work deals with re-interpretations of history.
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