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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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The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- The Fatal Shore
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert Hughes
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 748
- ISBN10
- 0099448548
- ISBN13
- 9780099448549
- Series
- Tags
- Australia
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
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- 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.