A Commonwealth of Thieves
Penal colonies
Australia, history
Australia, biography
Exiles
Governors
Colonization
Prisoners
Frontier and pioneer life
Great Britain
New York Times reviewed
Nonfiction
Biography
History
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, and crime was on the rise. Even the hulks sifting at …
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