The Fatal Shore

Name: The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
ISBN: 9780394753669

The Epic of Australia's Founding

Robert Hughes

1986·688 pages·Nonfiction

Crime Historical Fiction

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“A work of real distinction'”
— Philip Ziegler

An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. 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 narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

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