The Fatal Shore: History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

The Fatal Shore: History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

by RobertHughes (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 689
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 1860461506
ISBN 13: 9781860461507

Author Bio
Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New, and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art, both written before the present work. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, criticism at its most intelligent and impressive, trenchant, lucid, elegantly written- in the words of William Boyd; a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America, described in the Observer as the most bracing of critical broadsides against new anti-intellectual tyrannies .