The Thief Fleet: Unwanted, unwilling, unruly, they will lay the foundations of a worldwide empire… (Volume 1)

Fourteen hundred and twenty men, women, and children - naval, military, civilians free and in chains - are shipped halfway around the world from England to the South Pacific. Months later, at the end of the longest voyage of its kind in the Age of Sail, the Thief Fleet casts anchor on a shallow bay where a convict camp is hurriedly built. Unwanted and unwilling, these unruly migrants More »