Convicts

An Australian history book for children... It was the craziest, wildest and most daring expedition the world had ever seen.

This is perhaps the only extant diary ever written during the Australian penal era whilst its convict writer was imprisoned. John Ward, writing whilst incarcerated on Norfolk Island but formerly a groom to an officer gentleman, tells a story of thwarted love that he claims led him to a life of crime including theft, sexual assault and more. In telling the candid story of his downfall he exposes his own ruthlessness and lack of empathy. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

The story of the convicts transported from England on the ship Calcutta and the history of their settlement in the Australian colonies. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

A comprehensive history over a fifty year period of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in Port Arthur, one of the most remote and feared convict locations in colonial Australia.