The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts Michael Pahoff Author: Donald Spoto

Author: Donald Spoto

both human and animal

Since the early 1990s

I took the hard way out

What did he set out to achieve in his two volumes

The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts Michael Pahoff Author: Donald SpotoA seafaring story with a twist the incredible voyage of a shipload of disorderly girls and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them. This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Botany Bay a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its