The World’s Famous Prisons—Over Seas: Deportation and Colonization, Major Arthur Griffiths, 1905,
Major Arthur Griffiths exposes the harrowing, global experiments of 19th-century penal transportation. In this comprehensive volume from The World's Famous Prisons series, Griffiths lifts the veil on a brutal era when Great Britain and America sought to purge their societies by shipping thousands of convicts across the oceans to untamed wildernesses. From the desperate, famine-struck early years of the Australian penal colonies to the notorious horrors of Norfolk Island—where absolute lawlessness clashed with heavy iron chains—this text chronicles a high-stakes struggle for human survival.
Griffiths details the grueling conditions aboard standard convict ships, the brutal rise of outback bushrangers like the armored Kelly Gang, and the ultimate failure or success of turning raw prison labor into functioning colonial societies. It is an essential, meticulously researched chronicle of an age where banishment was a life sentence, and the boundary between establishing an empire and surviving a living hell was paper-thin.
Full Title: The World's Famous Prisons—Over Seas: Deportation and Colonization
Author: Major Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), a prominent prison inspector and military historian.
Publisher: The Grolier Society
Publication Year: 1905
Series Context: Published as 12-volume set titled The World's Famous Prisons, though each volume is complete on its own.
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