Fatal Shore
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 Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.5
- : 01 January 2003
- : 196mm X mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robert Hughes
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : English
- : 994
- : 688