Grim crims and convicts: 1788-1820

It Was An Incredible Idea-to Found A Colony Of Convicts Eight Months' Sail Away From Great Britain. In A Land With No Cities, No Farms, No Rich Spices. Just Savages In Huts. The Dutch, The French And The Portuguese Had Known About This Place For Two Hundred Years-and Had Turned Their Noses Up At It. The Chinese Had Known About It For Even Longer And They Weren't Interested Either. No Country Had Ever Thought To Send A Colony So Far Away. Why On Earth Would You Bother?