The Fatal Shore A History Of The Transportation Of Convicts To Australia 1787 1868

Author: Robert Hughes

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Price : $20.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780002173612
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Imprint : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Publication date : 01 November 1987
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Author : Robert Hughes
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"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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