Warwick Hirst Warwick Hirst i(A10921 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 A Distant Paradise for Dickens Warwick Hirst , 2011-2012 single work biography
— Appears in: SL : State Library of New South Wales Magazine , Summer vol. 4 no. 4 2011-2012; (p. 18-21)
'[Charles] Dickens was so convinced of the redeeming qualities of antipodean emigration that he sent two of his sons, Alfred D'Orsay Tennison Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens to settle in Australia.'
1 Lachlan Macquarie : A Governor of Vision Warwick Hirst , 2010 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Heritage , Winter no. 19 2010; (p. 30-35)
1 y separately published work icon The Man Who Stole the Cyprus : A True Story of Escape. Warwick Hirst , Kenthurst : Rosenberg , 2008 12791504 2008 single work biography

'On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership of William Swallow, a prisoner for life. Eight years earlier he had stowed away on a ship to England only to be eventually arrested and sent to Hobart for the second time. After marooning the crew, military guard and passengers on the desolate shore, Swallow skillfully sailed the brig across the Pacific to Tahiti then back to the Tongan Islands and on to Japan before finally scuttling her off the Chinese coast.
This epic of endurance was matched by the adventures of the people left behind in Recherche Bay. They were saved from starvation, not by the vacillating officers, but by an enterprising little cockney convict named John Pobjoy, who one year later would do his best to betray Swallow and his companions.
Five of the Cyprus convicts, including Swallow, eventually made their way to London where they were recognized and put on trial for piracy at the Old Bailey. The chief witness against them was Pobjoy, who had turned up in England after receiving a pardon for his efforts in rescuing the castaways.
Warwick Hirst has written an account of a rogue whose undoubted leadership, determination and resourcefulness might, in different circumstances, have led him to a far more favourable fate.' (Publication Summary)

1 The Escape Artist Warwick Hirst , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: AtMitchell , November vol. 2 no. 3 2006; (p. 3-5)
1 Henry Lawson's Death (or Life) Mask Warwick Hirst , 2004 single work essay
— Appears in: Upfront , Winter vol. 16 no. 2 2004; (p. 6-7)
1 Portraits in Words Warwick Hirst , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Upfront , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2003; (p. 8)
1 Trouble in Paradise Warwick Hirst , 2003 single work biography
— Appears in: Upfront , Summer vol. 15 no. 3 2003; (p. 6-7)
1 The Reclusive Australian Warwick Hirst , 1995 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 April 1995; (p. rev 7)
1 1 y separately published work icon My Dear, Dear Betsy : A Treasury of Australian Letters Warwick Hirst (editor), Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1993 Z259757 1993 anthology correspondence biography
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