<b>Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age.</b><br/><br/>In <i>Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia</i>, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women who forged the nation we would one day become.<br/><br/>There's Joseph Banks, the true founder of the colony; Surgeon John White, the saviour of the First Fleet; Pemulwuy, the Bidjigal freedom fighter; Mary Reiby, the horse thief who made good; Sapy Lovell, the Eora gypsy convict; John Donohue, the wild colonial boy; Lady Jane Franklin, the true leader of Van Diemen's Land - and many more!<br/><br/>Why did transportation occur, why did it end, and what was it like living in Australia from 1788 to 1870? Skilfully researched and told in Jim's warm and witty style, <i>Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia</i> answers these questions and brings to life well-known and unknown figures from Australia's history as a penal settlement. This is the true story of the colonisation of Australia.<br/><br/><b>'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes has been telling them for decades' -<i>Courier-Mail</i></b>