http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/courtesans-voyage/sian-rees/168/ Part detective story, part true-life drama, SECRETS OF THE DEAD unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events. Using the most up-to-date science in the laboratory and in the field, scientists and researchers examine the missing pieces of each puzzle, completing the picture of what had been merely an assemblage of suppositions. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:07:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/courtesans-voyage/sian-rees/168/#comment-1866 Marc Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:28:24 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=168#comment-1866 Commenting stealing of clothes as a childish prank shows how amoral the decendants remain. Commenting stealing of clothes as a childish prank shows how amoral the decendants remain.

]]> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/courtesans-voyage/sian-rees/168/#comment-1627 John Goold Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:16:53 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=168#comment-1627 Too much emphasis on the seedy side of life. Many of the convicts were simply petty thieves. Have to wonder about the research as an earlier Rees book, The Ship Thieves, is riddled with errors. Too much emphasis on the seedy side of life. Many of the convicts were simply petty thieves. Have to wonder about the research as an earlier Rees book, The Ship Thieves, is riddled with errors.

]]> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/courtesans-voyage/sian-rees/168/#comment-1397 Wil Cahill Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:51:37 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=168#comment-1397 Thank you Sian Rees for your efforts in bringing these women and their tribulations to light. I was particularly drawn to the eleven year old child sentenced to death for stealing cloths and who later became one of the founding mothers of Australia. Sian, your efforts, in a manner, redeem these women. Thank you Sian Rees for your efforts in bringing these women and their tribulations to light. I was particularly drawn to the eleven year old child sentenced to death for stealing cloths and who later became one of the founding mothers of Australia. Sian, your efforts, in a manner, redeem these women.

]]> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/courtesans-voyage/sian-rees/168/#comment-1210 Barrie Bolitho Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:51:04 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=168#comment-1210 Found the book in a secondhand shop, cant put it down. Im an Aussie who had 2 relatives on the first fleet, One was a woman sentenced to hang. Olivia Gascoine.I also sail, love the sea, and never knew why untill I traced my heritage back to Cornwall. It appears that I had an ancestor that did a bit of ship wrecking. I was told he fell over a cliff while trying to save some sheep, in a storm. Personally, I prefer the Ship Wrecking tale. Great Book, will find the TV series, looking forward to it. God Bless, and Thanks.. Found the book in a secondhand shop, cant put it down. Im an Aussie who had 2 relatives on the first fleet, One was a woman sentenced to hang. Olivia Gascoine.I also sail, love the sea, and never knew why untill I traced my heritage back to Cornwall. It appears that I had an ancestor that did a bit of ship wrecking. I was told he fell over a cliff while trying to save some sheep, in a storm. Personally, I prefer the Ship Wrecking tale. Great Book, will find the TV series, looking forward to it. God Bless, and Thanks..

]]> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/courtesans-voyage/sian-rees/168/#comment-1157 Vero Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:42:16 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=168#comment-1157 Davi, I totally agree with you. That woman is a joke. Davi, I totally agree with you. That woman is a joke.

]]> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/courtesans-voyage/sian-rees/168/#comment-1022 davi Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:44:53 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=168#comment-1022 Ree is the same kind of person who denies the existence of imperialism in the policies and acts of UK...specially in the case of the Paraguayan War of the XIX century between Argentina, Brasil and Uruguay against the isolated Paraguay, leading by the commercial interests of Britain. "Commerce and imperialism are not the same" one can hear in the argentinean film "Candido Lopez-the paraguayean war". As everybody can see it is not possible take such a kind of "academic researcher" seriously. Ree is the same kind of person who denies the existence of imperialism in the policies and acts of UK…specially in the case of the Paraguayan War of the XIX century between Argentina, Brasil and Uruguay against the isolated Paraguay, leading by the commercial interests of Britain. “Commerce and imperialism are not the same” one can hear in the argentinean film “Candido Lopez-the paraguayean war”.
As everybody can see it is not possible take such a kind of “academic researcher” seriously.

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