Large Paperback, Fair+ Condition, 1990, 276 pages, ISBN 1 875396 004

For the Term of his Natural Life – Marcus Clarke

The only complete illustrated edition

For the Term of his Natural Life is the grim and tragic story of life in an Australian penal colony. It is a story of inhumanity and suffering – of whips, chains and torture racks.

But though no attempt is made to soften the truth of the depths of degradation to which men sank in those harsh, dark, early days. For the Term of his Natural Life is not a bitter book. Woven through the story is the golden thread spun from the faith and hope of the gentle, sweet-natured Sylvia, who loves the luckless Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit.