You have some great books in your to-read pile, hope you enjoy them. Hundred 1000 Kingdoms has a huge amount of positive reviews from all over, but I haven't read it yet so just crossing my fingers for you. But I remember finding Fatal Shore completely absorbing, though mostly (years later) remember the convict parts, may have been reading less attentively the later chapters.
By the way, have you also seen a book called The Floating Brothel, by Rees, which is about a specific sailing out from england to australia, with a cargo of transportees male and female? The women found "protectors" on board, for survival and one of the crewmen thought it was true love rather than his being the better of 2 unappealing options; he spent the rest of his life trying to hook up with his wife, who had moved on. It was one of those micro histories that stay with you for ages.
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You have some great books in your to-read pile, hope you enjoy them. Hundred 1000 Kingdoms has a huge amount of positive reviews from all over, but I haven't read it yet so just crossing my fingers for you. But I remember finding Fatal Shore completely absorbing, though mostly (years later) remember the convict parts, may have been reading less attentively the later chapters.
By the way, have you also seen a book called The Floating Brothel, by Rees, which is about a specific sailing out from england to australia, with a cargo of transportees male and female? The women found "protectors" on board, for survival and one of the crewmen thought it was true love rather than his being the better of 2 unappealing options; he spent the rest of his life trying to hook up with his wife, who had moved on. It was one of those micro histories that stay with you for ages.