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000062486918 |
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AuCNLKIN |
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20180725151436.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780733338571 (paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9781460708842 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1031157083 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
SALS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
SALS |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
NJB |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
anuc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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u-at--- |
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e-uk--- |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
994.402092 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Courtenay, Adam, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE |
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| Title |
The ship that never was : |
| Remainder of title |
the greatest escape story of Australian colonial history / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Adam Courtenay. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Sydney, NSW : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
ABC Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
323 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
ABC Books. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller In 1828, James Porter, sailor, chancer, illywhacker, found himself on a ship bound for Van Diemen's Land, having been convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Sarah Island, known in Van Diemen's Land as 'hell on earth'. Many tried to escape the island, few succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that Sarah Island would closed down and the prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Commandeering the ship they'd been building to transport them to Port Arthur, the escapees sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale. The Ship That Never Was is an entertaining and rollicking story from our past by an exciting new voice in popular history. James Porter, whose memoirs were the inspiration for Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life, is an original Australian larrikin whose ingenuity, ability to talk himself out of a tight corner and refusal to buckle under authority makes him an irresistible anti-hero in the tradition of Ned Kelly. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Porter, James, |
| Dates associated with a name |
active 1823-1843. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Porter, James |
| Date of meeting or treaty signing |
(active 1823-1843) |
| 648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM |
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| Chronological term |
1800-1899 |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Convicts |
| Geographic subdivision |
Norfolk Island |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Transportation of convicts |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Escapes |
| Geographic subdivision |
Australia |
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Tasmania |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Convicts |
| Geographic subdivision |
Norfolk Island |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Prisoners, Transportation of |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Prisoners |
| Geographic subdivision |
Norfolk Island |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Penal transportation |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Penal colonies |
| Geographic subdivision |
Norfolk Island |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Penal colonies. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Penal transportation. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Prisoners. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Norfolk Island |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Australia |
| Geographic subdivision |
Norfolk Island. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Great Britain. |
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fast |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Australian |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Biography. |
| Source of term |
fast |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
History. |
| Source of term |
fast |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
