The story of modern Australia’s beginnings is inextricably linked to 160 000 people who came to the 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’ where 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.

 Size 275 x 210 mm, 48 pages, colour throughout, pictures, maps, illustrations. Softcover

Published by Trocadero Publishing ISBN  9780864271211