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Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Formats
Description
At the center of THE COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES is Arthur Phillips, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy assigned the formidable task of organizing the expedition to Australia and establishing a colony comprised mainly of unskilled and malcontent criminals and petty thieves. Using Phillipss personal journals, along with other historical documents, Keneally re-creates the grueling overseas voyage, a hellish journey that claimed the lives of many convicts....
2) You wouldn't want to be an 18th-century British convict!: a trip to Australia you'd rather not take
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.
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