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-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: 689
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 1860461506
ISBN 13: 9781860461507