Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia

by Lucy Williams

Book Overview

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526756315
• ISBN13: 9781526756312
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 6.1"