Book Launch: Breakout! (Robert Cox)
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The Hobart Bookshop is proud to be hosting the launch of 'Breakout!' by Tasmanian author Robert Cox. Robert Cox is a former copywriter, journalist, newspaper subeditor, and magazine editor with a special interest in the history of his home state Tasmania.In his new work Robert is able to tell, for the first time in full, the tragic story of Pevay and Timmy. From their perilous boyhood during Tasmania’s Black War to their botched hanging in a crowded Melbourne street.
As teenagers they’d been jailed for being black. They’d taken unwilling part in the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania. Forcedly interned in a bleak offshore gulag, they’d watched helplessly as friends and family died of disease and despair.
Then they were exiled to Victoria where colonists victimised them. It was the last straw. They stole guns and seized their freedom.
Location
The Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square, Battery Point TAS 7004
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Book Launch: Breakout! (Robert Cox)
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