Tasmania's convicts: How felons built a free society (repost)
Tasmania's convicts: How felons built a free society By Alison Alexander
Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2010 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 1742372058 | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2010 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 1742372058 | PDF | 3 MB
The story of the 72,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1853, and the colony they built.
Description
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of dozens of convicts and their families, she uncovers stories of success, failure, and everything in between.