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A fascinating account of the brutal penal system which saw British subjects in the late 18th-century transported to Australia. 16pp b/w illus.
Synopsis
An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.