Costain, Meredith.

You wouldn't want to be an 18th-century British convict! : a trip to Australia you'd rather not take / You would not want to be an 18th-century convict! written by Meredith Costain ; illustrated by David Antram ; created and designed by David Salariya. - New York : Franklin Watts, 2007, c2005. - 32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.

First published: Great Britain : Book House, 2005. Includes index.

A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.

0531149730 (hc.) 0531169987 (pbk.)

2006285133


Prisoners--History--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Prisoners--History--Great Britain--Juvenile literature.
Penal colonies--Australia--Juvenile literature.
Penal colonies--Great Britain--Juvenile literature.
Prisoners, Transportation of--Australia--Juvenile literature.


Australia--History--1788-1851--Juvenile literature.

HV8950.A8 / C67 2007

994.01