The Fatal Shore: A History Of The Transportation Of Convicts To Australia 1787-1868

by RobertHughes (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $4.20

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $15.59

  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.