The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Tom Keneally

The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia

Tom Keneally

528 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative tense slow-paced
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The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the Sydney experiment, with criminals perceived to be dam...

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