by RobertHughes (Author)
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia...This work presents 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 720
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Jan 2003
ISBN 10: 0099459159
ISBN 13: 9780099459156
Book Overview: 'An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler