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The Commonwealth of Thieves
- The Story of the Founding of Australia
Engelsk Paperback
The Commonwealth of Thieves
- The Story of the Founding of Australia
Engelsk Paperback

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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 damaging British society transported to Sydney, an ''open air prison with walls 14,000 miles thick''.

Eleven ships were dispatched in 1781, and arrived in Australia after eight hellish months at sea. Tom Keneally describes the first four years of the ''thief colony'' and how, despite the escapes, the floggings, the murders and the rebellions, it survived against the odds to create a culture which would never have been tolerated in its homeland but which, in Australia, became part of the identity of a new and audacious nation.

By the author of Schindler''s Ark, since made into the internationally acclaimed film, Schindler''s List.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
528
ISBN-13:
9780099483748
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0099483742
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 jun 2007
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
196mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
7 jun 2007
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge