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100 1 $aHughes, Robert,$d1938-2012.
245 14 $aThe fatal shore :$ba history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 /$cRobert Hughes.
260 $aLondon :$bVintage,$c2003, ©1986.
300 $axvi, 688 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: New York : Knopf, 1986; London : Collins Harvill, 1987.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 1 $a1. The Harbor and the exiles -- 2. A horse foaled by an acorn -- 3. The geographical unconscious -- 4. The starvation years -- 5. The voyage6. Who were the convicts? -- 7. bolters and bushrangers -- 8. Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- 9. The Government stroke -- 10. Gentlement of New South Wales -- 11. To plough Van Diemen's Land -- 12. Metastasis -- 13. Norfolk Island -- 14. Toward abolition -- 15. A special scourge -- 16. The aristocracy be we -- 17. The end of the system.
520 $aIn 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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