Sian Rees: The Floating Brothel

Sian Rees: The Floating Brothel - The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female

Headline, 2001. 248 sivua.

Kovakantinen ja hyväkuntoinen kirja.

Kirja on englanninkielinen.

Asiasanat: laiva, bordelli, 1800-luku, merenkulkutarina, rikollisuus

 

A seafaring story with a twist--the incredible voyage of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them. This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Botany Bay a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its hordes of lonely men with sexual favors as well as progeny. But the story of their voyage is even more incredible, and here it is expertly told by a historian with roots in the boat-building business and a true love of the sea.