Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Ruth Bonetti - GoodreadsI thought of buying this book as research for colonial history - topic of my next book - but so glad I borrowed it from the library instead. I had to renew it as it was such a struggle to plough ... Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Danielle - GoodreadsI'd been meaning to read this since it came out several years ago because the title sounds so interesting. Also, I have some ancestors who joined the LDS Church in Australia in the mid 1800s (preeety ... Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Gwen - GoodreadsFirst impression: this book reminded me a little of Battlestar Galactica's problems in establishing a new society so far removed from what they knew. How should we reestablish a civilization using our ... Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Steven - GoodreadsHalf way in, and so far it's terrific. It lacks a little critical reasoning and historical discipline but it is not a dry academic history either (and I've read plenty of them). I'd put it ahead of ... Read full review
Review: The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia
User Review - Tim Corke - GoodreadsFew have experienced the responsibility and authority to create a new colony. Fewer have experienced the creation of such a place on the opposite side of the world in a new land with the population ... Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Tracey - GoodreadsInterest in topic after reading The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Adventures of Jacky Faber, on her Way to Botany Bay Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Casey Wheeler - GoodreadsYears ago I read “The Fatal Shore” by Robert Hughes and felt like reading again about the beginning of the great British experiment that became Australia. This caused me to pick up this book. While ... Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Matthew - GoodreadsA very well written history of the founding of Australia. Too be honest there was nothing in here I had not read before. The author doesn't throq up any really novel interpretation of Australian ... Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Maureen - GoodreadsI wanted to know more about the founding of Australia Well, this is the book. But it only looks, in excruciating detail, at the first convict transports and their initial stabs at surviving in what we ... Read full review
Review: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Wes - GoodreadsI got to meet Thomas Keneally shortly after reading this and told him how much I enjoyed it. He said "you must have been bored" Read full review
