The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
- ISBN-10
- 0099448548
- ISBN-13
- 9780099448549
- Series
- The Fatal Shore
- Category
- Australia
- Pages
- 754
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Robert Hughes
Description
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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