Color fading on book jacket spine Batam Books, 1983 book club edition, 403 pages SARA DANE by Catherine Gaskin. The classic romantic novel of Australia and the courageous people who settled it. Sara Dane's fierce pride and unfettered spirit lead her to a wrongful conviction and a prison ship to Botany Bay. But that same pride, renewed by the love of a man who was once her jailer, leads her to overcome her past, defy convention and tame a continent. A riveting tale of a remarkable woman whose passion and ambition triumph over impossible odds.