In 1835 the Neva went down in what ultimately turned out to be the most disastrous shipwreck of convicts being sent from Ireland to Australia. Only 22 people survived, finding themselves with minimal provisions on King Island, Tasmania. This volume builds on G.A. Mawer's account in his Most Perfectly Safe: the Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42, but adds consideration of original source material found in Ireland, New South Wales and Tasmania. It also goes into a lot more detail as it covers the lives of the survivors afterwards and attempts to shed new light on some of the mysteries surround the wreck. The first appendix provides a list of all known convict voyages from Ireland to Australia that took place from 1791 to 1853. The second supplies the names of the Neva's women convicts, other women who with their children were seeking to join their already deported husbands, and the crew. Distributed in the US by Dufour Editions, Inc. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
