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Author
Pub. Date
2006.
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Description
At the center of THE COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES is Arthur Phillips, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy assigned the formidable task of organizing the expedition to Australia and establishing a colony comprised mainly of unskilled and malcontent criminals and petty thieves. Using Phillipss personal journals, along with other historical documents, Keneally re-creates the grueling overseas voyage, a hellish journey that claimed the lives of many convicts....
3) Irish escape
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In 1876, after eight years of incarceration at Fremantle Prison in Western Australia, six Irish political prisoners escaped to America on board the American whaler Catalpa. Under the pretext of a whaling voyage, the Catalpa and its courageous and unassuming captain, George Smith Anthony, were part of an ambitious plan to liberate the prisoners. Their story is one of swashbuckling adventure and heroism.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the lives of young prisoners who were forever changed because of transportation, including the boy who became the first person hanged in Australia and the girl whose likeness is now on the nation's twenty-dollar note.