The Commonwealth Of Thieves

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Random House
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 509 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Australia is the only modern society to have begun as a dedicated penal settlement. It was an experiment that should have ended like others of its kind in a stew of murder, rebellion and starvation. In this compelling, vivid and moving recreation of the first four years of 'the Sydney experiment', Tom Keneally examines how a motley 'thief colony' exiled by England as incapable of civilised development, not only survived, but flourished into a sophisticated modern society. History at its surprising and gripping best.

ISBN: 9781760894238