(From back of book) Cannibal convicts, murdering squatters, sea captains who kidnapped their crew, poor farmers forced off their land- they had all come to the colonies of New South Wales and Van Dieman's land to make better lives for themselves. And now there were new colonies and farms spreading around Australia. Join Jackie French and Peter Sheehan on a trip back through time to meet the rotters and squatters, the brave and the bold in the next fascinating and hilarious book in the Fair Dinkum Histories story of Australia. It's history as you've never seen it.