The Last Continent (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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It’s often said — not least by Australians — that they are the descendants of British convicts who were sentenced to “transportation” as a penalty only slightly preferable to death, and indeed the earliest European settlements, from 1788 onwards, were penal colonies. However, separate “free colonies” were established not long afterwards, and the transportation of prisoners stopped in the mid 19th century.