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Solomon's Noose: The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart Town

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Solomon's Noose: The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart Town - Harris, Steve
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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 Diemans Land evolved from a Hades of Evil to sow the seeds of nationhood. The book paints a vivid picture of ...

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Solomon's Noose: The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart Town 2015, Melbourne Books, VIC

ISBN-13: 9781922129741

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