The Fatal Shore A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting 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 definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' Times

ISBN:	9780099448549
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	02 Jan 2003
DEWEY:	365.3408921094
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	688
Weight:	568g
Height:	197mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	40mm

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