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Hausman, Gerald , Hausman, Loretta

Escape from Botany Bay: The True Story of Mary Bryant

220 pp. | Scholastic/Orchard | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-439-40327-8 $$16.95
(4) YA Sentenced to a prison colony in Australia for stealing a bonnet, Mary Bryant, with her companions, escaped from Botany Bay by sailing thousands of miles in a small open boat. This fictionalized first-person account uses incongruously elevated diction and it's difficult to sort out fact from fancy, but the telling is swift and the story dramatic. An epilogue relates the characters' fates. Bib.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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