In an Unknown Prison Land
by George Chetwynd Griffith
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About this eBook
- Author
- Griffith, George Chetwynd, 1857-1906
- Title
- In an Unknown Prison Land An account of convicts and colonists in New Caledonia with jottings out and home
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- New Caledonia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60960
- Release Date
- December 18, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.IN AN UNKNOWN PRISON LAND
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.NOTE
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.Part I A STREAK THROUGH THE STATES — I DUTIES AND DOLLARS — II CONCERNING CITIES, WITH A PARENTHESIS ON MANNERS — III THE QUEEN OF THE GOLDEN STATE — A SEA-INTERLUDE ACROSS THE PACIFIC ON A STEAM-ROLLER — I
- 6.Part II PRISON LAND — A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON CONVICTS AND COLONISTS — I SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS — II SOME SOCIAL SIDELIGHTS — III ILE NOU — IV MEASUREMENT AND MANIA — V A CONVICT ARCADIA — VI SOME HUMAN DOCUMENTS — VII THE PLACE OF EXILES — VIII A PARADISE OF KNAVES — IX USE FOR THE USELESS — X A LAND OF WOOD AND IRON — XI MOSTLY MOSQUITOS AND MICROBES
- 7.Part III HOMEWARD BOUND — I “ TWENTY YEARS AFTER ” — II DEMOS AND DEAR MONEY — III A COSMOPOLITAN COLONY
- 8.FOOTNOTES
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