Morgan's Run: Colleen McCullough

It was one of the greatest human experiments undertaken - to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English Society. Amid horrendous conditions of brutality, the First Fleet was sent to a place that no European - except Captain Cook - had ever seen and there they were left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent. Richard Morgan - convicted felon and educated, intelligent, resourceful man - finds the will to survive, experience the joy of love and finally make an indelible mark on the new frontier. Meticulously researched and epic.