The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
by Hughes, Robert
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An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerIn 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 Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
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- The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
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- Hughes, Robert
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- 0099448548
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- 9780099448549
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- Vintage Books
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- London
- Date Published
- 2009
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