The Fatal Shore - A history of the transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868
Author(s): Robert Hughes
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shoreis the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia."
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Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
- : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- : November 1987
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robert Hughes
- : hardback with dustjacket
- : good to very good
- : xvi, 688