The Affair of the Wellington Brig: A True & Terrible Tale

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The tragic story of men willing to risk their lives to avoid the living death of the ghastly penal settlement of Norfolk Island wrings the heart. A daring prisoners' mutiny at sea, and for some sixty wronged men success was in their grasp. For a moment they breathed the sweet air of freedom and, as their Priate Captain wrote in his log, all acts and appearances of the men denoted gladness. But for how brief a time. Soon even the elements conspired to send them back to misery and death.