The Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes
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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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The Fatal Shore
2010, Random House Group Limited
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The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia 1787-1868.
1998, The Folio Society
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Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
March 12, 1988, Random House Audio
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The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia,1787-1868
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