Goalbird

Description

Convicts, pirates, mutiny — this book has it all.  

It is the true story of a man named William Walker, who was convicted of burglary and transported to Van Diemen’s Land in 1821.

William earned himself a reputation as an escape artist, eluding authorities for the first time when he jumped overboard in the North Sea. He escaped back to England, was returned to Australia where he eventually died.