Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia

"A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay." -Pirates and Privateers

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 empires most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous t...