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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improb- 9781400079568, Thomas Keneally, paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Keneally, Thomas
- ISBN
- 9781400079568
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
140007956X
ISBN-13
9781400079568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038544222
Product Key Features
Book Title
Commonwealth of Thieves : the Improbable Birth of Australia
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Public Affairs & Administration, Penology, Australia & New Zealand, Modern / 17th Century, Oceania
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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Praise for Thomas Keneally "In the style of the best historians [Keneally] allows the intrinsic power of the tales he tells and the people who populate his pages to draw the reader into a fully elaborated universe." --"New York Times ""Keneally has all the gifts of a great storyteller: a curious eye, a clear voice, worldly knowledge and an innocent, inexhaustible heart." --"San Francisco Chronicle ""Keneally is joyfully inquisitive....He enters naturally and sympathetically into the hearts of his protagonists--his own prose takes on the flavour of the period he invokes." --"Times Literary Supplement " "Keneally's atmospheric and descriptive powers are formidable." --"Boston Globe ""Keneally has a gift for heroic stories." --"Washington Post", Praise for Thomas Keneally "In the style of the best historians [Keneally] allows the intrinsic power of the tales he tells and the people who populate his pages to draw the reader into a fully elaborated universe." -- "New York Times "" Keneally has all the gifts of a great storyteller: a curious eye, a clear voice, worldly knowledge and an innocent, inexhaustible heart." -- "San Francisco Chronicle "" Keneally is joyfully inquisitive... .He enters naturally and sympathetically into the hearts of his protagonists-- his own prose takes on the flavour of the period he invokes." -- "Times Literary Supplement " " Keneally's atmospheric and descriptive powers are formidable." -- "Boston Globe "" Keneally has a gift for heroic stories." -- "Washington Post", "A readable, anecdote-packed account of a tragic colonial experiment." - Boston Globe "Superb. . . . Keneally uses his novelist's skill to construct a lively mosaic from contemporary accounts." - Financial Times "Evocative. . . . Weaving together many individual stories, Keneally paints an impressionistic picture of a society in the making." - The Washington Post Book World "Keneally deploys his skills as a novelist to give depth to his work as an historian." - The Economist, "A readable, anecdote-packed account of a tragic colonial experiment." --"Boston Globe" "Superb. . . . Keneally uses his novelist's skill to construct a lively mosaic from contemporary accounts." --"Financial Times" "Evocative. . . . Weaving together many individual stories, Keneally paints an impressionistic picture of a society in the making." --"The Washington Post Book World" "Keneally deploys his skills as a novelist to give depth to his work as an historian." --"The Economist", "A readable, anecdote-packed account of a tragic colonial experiment." -Boston Globe "Superb. . . . Keneally uses his novelist's skill to construct a lively mosaic from contemporary accounts." -Financial Times "Evocative. . . . Weaving together many individual stories, Keneally paints an impressionistic picture of a society in the making." -The Washington Post Book World "Keneally deploys his skills as a novelist to give depth to his work as an historian." -The Economist
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
994.02
Synopsis
Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales., In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair, Keneally gives us an inside view of this unprecedented experiment from the perspective of the new colony's governor, Arthur Phillips. Using personal journals and documents, Keneally re-creates the hellish overseas voyage and the challenges Phillips faced upon arrival: unruly convicts, disgruntled officers, bewildered and hostile natives, food shortages, and disease. He also offers captivating portrayals of Aborigines and of convict settlers who were determined to begin their lives anew. "A Commonwealth of Thieves" immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up the thrills and hardships of those first four improbable years., In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair, Keneally gives us an inside view of this unprecedented experiment from the perspective of the new colony's governor, Arthur Phillips. Using personal journals and documents, Keneally re-creates the hellish overseas voyage and the challenges Phillips faced upon arrival: unruly convicts, disgruntled officers, bewildered and hostile natives, food shortages, and disease. He also offers captivating portrayals of Aborigines and of convict settlers who were determined to begin their lives anew. A Commonwealth of Thieves immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up the thrills and hardships of those first four improbable years.
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