The Fatal Shore. A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868
by Hughes, Robert
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0002173611
- ISBN 13
- 9780002173612
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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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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB249881
- Title
- The Fatal Shore. A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868
- Author
- Hughes, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 4th impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002173611
- ISBN 13
- 9780002173612
- Publisher
- Collins Harvill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- aust-history;
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