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From the blurb: This is the first complete and accurate account of one of the most extraordinary adventures in the annals of seamanship and crime. On 14 August 1829 the brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the south-east coast of Van Diemen's Land. She was taking a batch of convicts to the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. With the Captain drunk, the Mate and Army lieutenant lured out of the way by accident or design, the convicts mutinied under the skilfully disguised leadership of William Walker — alias William Swallow — who had, unknown to the authorities, already once been transported to Van Diemen's Land and had escaped. Swallow's remarkable pertinacity in sailing the stolen brig to New Zealand, the Tonga Islands and Japan, before scuttling her in the China Sea, provides an epic of leadership and endurance...
Title: The Pirates of the Brig Cyprus.
Author: Frank Clune and P.R. Stephenson.
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.
Pages: 205.
Illustrations: None.
Condition: This copy is from the Cosmopolitan Club Library in Palmerston North, so it contains the usual stamps.
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Alan Ireland, Autumn Leaves Bookshop, PO Box 2052, Palmerston North 4440, NZ