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Floating Brothel by Sian Rees
33.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
In July 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Botany Bay in Australia on board a ship called The Lady Julian, destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank for the men already there.This is the enthralling story of the women and their voyage. Based on painstaking research into contemporary ...Show more
Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Defied the Gestapo by Sian Rees
30.00 NZD
Category: History
The full story of a remarkable woman who has become legendary in the history of the French Resistance. In May 1943, a young Frenchwoman called Lucie Aubrac engineered the escape of her husband Raymond from the clutches of Klaus Barbie, the feared Gestapo chief. When Raymond was arrested again that June, ...Show more
Sweet Water and Bitter: The ships that stopped the slave trade by Sian Rees
32.99 NZD
Category: History
When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to 'repatriate' freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. 'Is it possible,' asked Ottobah Cugoano, biblically, 'that a fountain should send forth both sweet water and bitter?'. Could the slave trade be abolished fr ...Show more
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