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

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

Thomas Keneally with Simon Vance (Narrator)

12 hours, 28 minutes first pub 2007 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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A lively history of the 'First Fleet' which took convicts from Britain to Australia in 1787; Sydney's early years as 'an open-air prison'; and the colonisation of New South Wales. The story of modern Australia begins in 18th-century Britain, where...

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