Description: SOLOMON'S NOOSE THE TRUE STORY OFHER MAJESTY'S HANGMAN OF HOBART bySteve Harris 9BBBBBBBBBBBB9 Melbourne, Victoria: published by Melbourne Books, 2015. Paperback. 9 x 6 in. 328 pages. Includes 8 pages of colour and duotone illustrations. Condition: very good. This is a nice clean, tight copy with light general signs of use - a touch of curling to the bottom corners, but no markings at all. 9BBBBBBBBBBBB9 The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggles of good-evil, life-death, hope-despair, which drew the attention of Darwin, Twain, Trollope and Dickens as Van Diemen's Land evolved from a Hades of Evil to sow the seeds of nationhood. The book paints a vivid picture of the society and poverty from which Blay's character was forged in England and the desperate, brutal nature of being a convict in Van Diemen's Land. Solomon's Noose is an important book in exposing the dark 'underbelly' in the formation of modern Australia.
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Publication Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Solomon's Noose
Author: Steve Harris
Narrative Type: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Melbourne Books
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Original Language: English
Topic: Biography, Convicts, Executioners, Tasmania
Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia
