Review - A Common Wealth of Thieves - 6/10

A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia

As the title suggests, the country of Australia was founded with the intentions of being a penal colony housing the unwanted criminals of England.  Remarkably, now Australia is one of worlds most technology advanced and desirably advanced countries in the world.

This book chronicles the first five years of the countries founding.  It details the different stories of the criminals, what they did to be shipped to Australia and how they lived once they got there.

To be honest I could not really get into this book, and I think it is probably mostly my fault.  I just lost interest early on and could never get it back.  I think it was because the stories were just so foreign to me that they I just did not care.  The book is written well and there are some interesting stories, but it was not for me.