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Soul of Australia #1b
Gurrewa
A true tale of the shame of a nation’s founding when mostly inept personnel were chosen to accompany petty-crime-convicts to an un-inspected destination, to found a settlement. Tradesmen in every skill required had been overlooked; street gamin, pickpockets and loose women (near all illiterate) were depended on to make bricks, erect houses and feed a thousand others when warlike Aborigines made access to forest impossible.
354 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 26, 2018
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July 24, 2019
Brutally honest... At times, hard on the eyes and ears
Full disclosure, I did not finish this book. I will say, from what I read, that it seems most excellently researched and informative regarding the abject poverty people suffered and the dreadful conditions they were forced to endure when convicted of a crime. I would have read more, given the interesting storyline and high quality of writing, but I found some of the language, particularly the repeated use of the highly offensive word "Nigger", as a name like "Bob" or "Jim", to be too much to stomach. I can accept its usage to a degree, as part of the time period, but as a proper pronoun used over and over and over...? No! On Kindle audio, it pains the ears to hear it so excessively. I think it in poor taste for the author to have done that.
Full disclosure, I did not finish this book. I will say, from what I read, that it seems most excellently researched and informative regarding the abject poverty people suffered and the dreadful conditions they were forced to endure when convicted of a crime. I would have read more, given the interesting storyline and high quality of writing, but I found some of the language, particularly the repeated use of the highly offensive word "Nigger", as a name like "Bob" or "Jim", to be too much to stomach. I can accept its usage to a degree, as part of the time period, but as a proper pronoun used over and over and over...? No! On Kindle audio, it pains the ears to hear it so excessively. I think it in poor taste for the author to have done that.
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