THE GAOLER

THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
THE GAOLER
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Title: THE GAOLER
Author(s): LOCKE, Elsie
ISBN: 0908564163
Category: New Zealand - General History
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover
Published: 1978
Published By: Dunmore Press
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 232
Size (mm): 155 w x 210 h x 20 d

Condition

No dust jacket - first image for illustrative purposes only.
Immaculate with only light wear/marks on covers, otherwise as new, Images depict all need to know detail.

About

A blend of biography, documentary and evocation of life in early Otago, based on the Journal of Henry Monson, Dunedin Gaol, 1851-61.

Tells of Dunedin's earliest prison, essentially a makeshift affair neither secure nor comfortable, but small enough for the prisoners to be regarded as human beings.

The central character of the story, Henry Monson, strove constantly to improve prison conditions and his prisoner's moral outlook, struggling all the way with official indifference and miserliness. Elsie Locke draws on a store of contemporary records, newspapers, diaries and reminiscences to tell this story, and attempts to restore, by imagination, some of the elements that so often go missing in history.

Illustrated with monochrome images and drawing, including on end papers.

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