2002, ISBN: 9780671024185

New York: Pocket Books, 2002. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Cain, David & Karl, Anita (maps) & Kemp, Jim (maps). 1st printing. Wrappers lightly rubbed, inner wr… Mehr…

New York: Pocket Books, 2002. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Cain, David & Karl, Anita (maps) & Kemp, Jim (maps). 1st printing. Wrappers lightly rubbed, inner wrapper faintly toned. 2002 Mass Market Paperback. "In a novel of sweeping narrative power unequaled since her own beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough returns to Australia -- this time with the story of its birth. At the center of her new novel is Richard Morgan, son of a Bristol tavern-keeper, devoted husband and loving father, sober and hardworking craftsman. By the machinations of fate and the vagaries of the 18th-century English judicial system, he is consigned as a convict to the famous "First Fleet," which set sail, bearing, as an experiment in penology, 582 male and 193 female felons sentenced to transportation, in May of 1787 for the continent that Captain Cook had discovered only a few years earlier. The word "epic" is overused, but no other word can do justice to one of the most grueling and significant voyages in human history or to the courage of the convicts whose sufferings were not ended but had only just begun when they set foot on Australian soil at Botany Bay on January 19th, 1788. Of those convicts, Richard Morgan stood out, not only for his strength and his calm determination to let no man bully him, but also for his intelligence, his fair-mindedness, his common sense, and his willingness to help others. To these qualities must be added a certain innate dignity that hinted, even in the most terrible conditions, at a life marked by tragedies that would have broken most men. In Richard Morgan, Colleen McCullough has created one of her most compelling characters. We see through Morgan's eyes the two worlds in which the story takes place: that of 18th-century Bristol, where Morgan was born and expected to live out his life, and that of a convicted felon sent to settle a hostile new world. When the book begins, Richard Morgan is a contented man -- happily married, with a child he adores. Then, piece by piece, his idyll crumbles until he finds himself led into an ambiguous relationship with a beautiful young woman, whose dissolute protector seeks vengeance on Morgan to protect his own skin. He endures the agonies of bereavement and financial loss, incarceration in prison and aboard the notorious "hulks," then the horrors of the journeys to Botany Bay and Norfolk Island, where he finds against all odds a new love and a new life. Richard Morgan's story is true, but in making Morgan the central figure of her novel, Colleen McCullough has created a hero whom no reader will ever forget; she has written not only a great adventure and a powerful love story, but also a book that combines the elements of Tom Jones and Mutiny on the Bounty. Morgan's Run is great fiction, full of drama, passion, history, love, and hatred, full-blooded and totally engrossing, a stunning work that is at once rich entertainment -- and a revelation., Pocket Books, 2002, 2.5<

2002, ISBN: 9780671024185

Colleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breath-taking saga brimming wit… Mehr…

Colleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breath-taking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion. It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown continent with the criminals of English society. For Richard Morgan, twelve months as a prisoner on the high seas would be just the beginning in a soul-trying test to survive in a hostile new land where, against all odds, he would find a new love and a new life. From the dank cells of England's prisons to the unforgiving frontier of the eighteenth-century outback, Morgan's Run is the epic tale of one man whose strength and character helped settle a country and define its future., Pocket Books, 2002-01, 2.5<

2002, ISBN: 9780671024185

Pocket Books, 2002. Paperback. Very good. 2 spine creases, corner bends on cover. Smudging on outer edges, clean inside. Amazon: Take a long voyage deep into the 18th century with Coll… Mehr…

Pocket Books, 2002. Paperback. Very good. 2 spine creases, corner bends on cover. Smudging on outer edges, clean inside. Amazon: Take a long voyage deep into the 18th century with Colleen McCullough, a novelist for readers with a big appetite for historical slices of life. In Morgan's Run, her mild-mannered hero is a Bristol tavern owner's son with a God-given gift for, Pocket Books, 2002, 3<

2002, ISBN: 9780671024185

Pocket Books, 2002-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Ships quickly. May have some page tanning from age. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise… Mehr…

Pocket Books, 2002-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Ships quickly. May have some page tanning from age. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids., Pocket Books, 2002-01-01, 2.5<