Free Download Paul Collins, "Hell’s gates: the terrible journey of Alexander Pearce, Van Dieman’s land cannibal"
English | 2004 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1740661486 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
For the convicts transported from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth. The worst prisoners were sent to the isolated Sarah Island, accessed through a treacherous channel that the convicts named ‘Hell’s Gates’, a reference to the gates of hell in Dante’s Inferno: ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’.