Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1.There is a Wildness
• 2.The Liabilities of the Sea
• 3.Madness and Malingering
• 4.The ‘Lunatic Asylum’
• 5.The Politics of a Penal Colony
• 6.Darling’s Suicides
• 7.After the Rebellion
• 8.Wrongful Confinement and Irresponsible Power
• Conclusion

About the Author

James Dunk is a historian and writer living and working in Sydney, on Gadigal country. A research fellow at the University of Sydney and a conjoint fellow at the University of Newcastle, James is a frequent contributor to the Australian Book Review.

Reviews

Bedlam at Botany Bay is a page-turner. A cascade of vivid case studies and their tragi-comic impact on the penal colony carries the reader forward as James Dunk's forensic but compassionate examination reveals the interior - and exterior - madness of humanity in early Sydney...Don't miss it.' - Babette Smith, The Australian