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Ashton's Hotel: The journal of William Baker Ashton, first governor of the Adelaide Gaol

Ashton's Hotel: The journal of William Baker Ashton, first governor of the Adelaide Gaol

Harris, Rhondda

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & OceaniaTrue Crime

ISBN10: 1743054823
ISBN13: 9781743054826
Publisher: Wakefield Pr
Published: May 8 2017
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

South Australia was meant to be the perfect colony: free settlers, no crime, and no mental illness. But good intentions go awry. Within three years plans for a permanent gaol were well established, along with a governor to oversee it: William Baker Ashton.

Researcher Rhondda Harris came upon Ashton's long-lost journal by happy accident, and was soon absorbed by 'The Governor's' handwritten pages. They told a hidden story of early Adelaide and its underbelly, of crashes and crises and crims. 'Ashton's Hotel', the colonists called their prison. His kindness of spirit, under nigh-impossible circumstances, shines through in this first published edition of his journal, expertly contextualised and introduced by Rhondda Harris.

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