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 - 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: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
User Review - Red Rocky - GoodreadsStarted off wondering if I could actually finish this very dry read. With pages where Keneally lists the number of horses, convicts, soldiers, bags of flour (you get the picture)etc, loaded onto the ... 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 - 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 - Marian Willeke - GoodreadsThis book, fascinating and thorough as it is, received 4 stars instead of 5 simply because it was a bit difficult to follow with the writing style presented. There were several instances where I had ... Read full review
