Convicts & Colonists

Ron T. Parsons

A previous time. Different attitudes. Stories of whaling, sealing, exploring, convict life, commerce, natives and gold discoveries, including related personal experiences.
Learn why the colony’s Governors condoned bigamy, and how proclamations, general orders and news were communicated to the population. And what prompted a young British family to move half way across the world to an isolated penal colony in a harsh land?
Early Australian history from an unusual perspective…