Download or read book Closing Hell's Gates written by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sen.