THE TIN TICKET, Deborah J. Swiss
New in Audio! From Tantor, the story of the convict women who built a continent. Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery—who created the most liberated society of their time. “A moving and fascinating story.”—Adam Hochschild, author […]
Swiss
Deborah Swiss An internationally recognized author, Deborah J. Swiss has appeared on The Today Show, NPR radio, and ABC radio Australia. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic Australia, Time, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and The Federal Glass Ceiling Commission Report. Deborah’s fourth non-fiction book, The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia’s Convict […]
STOLEN CANYON: The Race to Own the Grand Canyon and the Betrayal of the Indigenous People of the West, Deborah J. Swiss
From the author of THE TIN TICKET, the dramatic frontier tale of how one of our greatest natural treasures, the Grand Canyon, was stolen from the eleven tribes who inhabited it. While the Santa Fe Railway and hospitality magnate Fred Harvey were transforming an isolated wilderness and holy site into a travel destination, the US government […]