Making of Martin Sparrow/The Ship That Never Was
Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland
History/War Stories
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Martin Sparrow is already struggling when the Hawkesbury's great flood of March 1806 lays waste to him and his farm. Luckless, lovelorn and deep in debt, the ex-convict is confronted with a choice.
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, Cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Dieman's Land.
Chair: Anna Johnston
Presented by The University of Queensland