Con
Book Details
Author(s)Frank Kreffl
PublisherXlibris AU
ISBN / ASINB00L4VXMNQ
ISBN-13978B00L4VXMN0
Sales Rank1,073,830
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
"
The first 750 British convicts landed on the barren shores
of New South Walesin 1788.
The last few landed inFremantle,Western Australia, in 1868.
In the intervening 80 years over 160,000 convicted men
women and children were shipped ""Down Under"".
They were English, Irish, Scottish, American, Canadian, and others.
Life in the colony was harsh: people who arrived late for work,
bad-mouthed the boss, or sang while working in chains
were mercilessly flogged.
They rebelled.
They founded a nation.
They became the Australians.
AS AUSTRALIA PROSPERED PEOPLE
FROM ALL OVER THE WORD CAME IN DROVES
THEY ARE STILL COMING
""The story moves along at a chain-rattling pace.""
DAVID BUTLER (Against the Wind, A blood-red Sun at Noon, Lusitania)
""Exciting and epic in its proportions — particularly as part of a trilogy ... Someone will take to this in terms of a film or films.""
DAVID BROWN (The Sound of Music, Jaws, Cocoon)
""Con is an earnest attempt to rub our noses in the muck and blood that lies beneath the office blocks and real estate subdivisions of today ... Con has considerable power.""
IAN BLACK (critic, Campaign)
Extracts in the wake of the first edition published in 1979
"
The first 750 British convicts landed on the barren shores
of New South Walesin 1788.
The last few landed inFremantle,Western Australia, in 1868.
In the intervening 80 years over 160,000 convicted men
women and children were shipped ""Down Under"".
They were English, Irish, Scottish, American, Canadian, and others.
Life in the colony was harsh: people who arrived late for work,
bad-mouthed the boss, or sang while working in chains
were mercilessly flogged.
They rebelled.
They founded a nation.
They became the Australians.
AS AUSTRALIA PROSPERED PEOPLE
FROM ALL OVER THE WORD CAME IN DROVES
THEY ARE STILL COMING
""The story moves along at a chain-rattling pace.""
DAVID BUTLER (Against the Wind, A blood-red Sun at Noon, Lusitania)
""Exciting and epic in its proportions — particularly as part of a trilogy ... Someone will take to this in terms of a film or films.""
DAVID BROWN (The Sound of Music, Jaws, Cocoon)
""Con is an earnest attempt to rub our noses in the muck and blood that lies beneath the office blocks and real estate subdivisions of today ... Con has considerable power.""
IAN BLACK (critic, Campaign)
Extracts in the wake of the first edition published in 1979
"
