Description - Convicts by Joel Weston
"The story of modern Australia¿s beginnings is inextricably linked to 160 000 people who came to this land as convicts. Here we see how a nation was founded not on free settlement or immigration, but by criminal offenders who were transported to a `land beyond the sea¿. Many went on to create new lives for themselves. Follow the story of greed, brutality, inhumanity, and occasional decency as a small group of people learn to cope with an environment utterly alien to them. This is how Australia grew into a prosperous nation from the cheap labour of so many hapless convicts who had little say in their destiny."
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Discovering History (Upper Primary) Colonial Australia: South Australia (Reading Level 30+/F&P Level Z)
