The Commonwealth Of Thieves

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Random House Australia
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 509 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by acclaimed and bestselling author Tom Keneally. 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: 9781740513371