The Fatal Shore

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ISBN-10:

0099448548

ISBN-13:

9780099448549

Author(s): Robert Hughes
Edition: 39100th
Released: Jan 01, 2009
Publisher: Vintage Books
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
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Description:

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.


























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