A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally

A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia

Thomas Keneally

385 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative tense slow-paced
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It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, ...

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