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The Commonwealth of Thieves Tells 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. Full description
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"Australia is lucky to have Keneally. Few writers have a public voice that one wants to take to the bedroom... He gets down and dirty with his characters form their perspective at the time... complex moderate and humane... likely to endure" (Nicholas Shakespeare Daily Telegraph)
"Evocative, broad-ranging and intelligently observed" (Mail on Sunday)
"Keneally has deployed his outstanding talents as a narrative writer to produce an enlivening, informative and judicious book about his country's troubled origins" (Barclay McBain Herald)
"Keneally has always had a grand talent for the telling of a tale. His rattling account of the genesis of his native city is one of his very best" (Carmen Callil The Times)
"The Commonwealth of Thieves is immaculately researched and historically exact... a great read and a useful scholarly resource....an account of an extraordinary event described with gusto and sympathy" (Kate Grenville Guardian)
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"Evocative, broad-ranging and intelligently observed" (Mail on Sunday)
"Keneally has deployed his outstanding talents as a narrative writer to produce an enlivening, informative and judicious book about his country's troubled origins" (Barclay McBain Herald)
"Keneally has always had a grand talent for the telling of a tale. His rattling account of the genesis of his native city is one of his very best" (Carmen Callil The Times)
"The Commonwealth of Thieves is immaculately researched and historically exact... a great read and a useful scholarly resource....an account of an extraordinary event described with gusto and sympathy" (Kate Grenville Guardian)
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.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0099483742
- ISBN 13 9780099483748
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Tells 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099483748
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