Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile by award-winning biographer Alison Alexander

by award-winning biographer Alison Alexander

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It depicts an array of Tasmanian native flora and fauna

Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile by award-winning biographer Alison AlexanderA graphic, confronting story of poverty, loneliness, racism, rapacity and violence in Van Diemens Land. In Nottingham, England in 1810, John Marsden is jobless and desperate to find ways to feed his family. For stealing two sheep he is imprisoned and transported to Van Diemens Land. Although missing his family badly, Marsden works steadily, knowing that freedom and opportunity beckon. There will be no redemption for his former shipmates who have