The Girl from Botany Bay - Hardcoverby Carolly Erickson (Author) On a moonless night in the early 1790s, prisoner Mary Bryant, her husband William, her two small children, and seven other convicts stole a twenty foot longboat and slipped noiselessly out of Sydney Cove, Australia, eluding their captors. They sailed north, all the way to Indonesia, traveling some thirty six hundred treacherous miles in ten weeks an incredible feat of seamanship. For a time, Mary and her companions were