For the first time since her hugely popular bestseller The Thorn Birdscaptivated millions of readers Colleen McCullough returns to Australia with abreathtaking ... » 

For the first time since her hugely popular bestseller The Thorn Birdscaptivated millions of readers Colleen McCullough returns to Australia with abreathtaking new historical saga. It was one of the greatest human experimentsever undertaken to populate an unknown land with the criminal the unloved andthe unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleledthat of slavery The First Fleet was sent to a place no European but thelegendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostileAustralian continent these convicts and their equally isolated guards occupythe centre of McCulloughs riveting new epic. Richard Morgan convicted felonand educated intelligent resourceful man finds the will to surviveexperience the joys of love and finally make an indelible mark upon the newfrontier.It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken to populate an unknown land with the criminal the unloved amd the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery The First Fleet was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken to populate an unknown land with the criminal the unloved amd the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery The First Fleet was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. «