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The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
994.02 HUGH	Adult Non Fiction		Panania .	. On Loan .	7 Jun 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780099448549 (paperback)
Name	Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012 author.
Title	The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes.
Published	London : Vintage, 2003.
Published	©2003
Description	xvi, 688 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimilies, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-670) and index.
Summary	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.
Subjects	Penal colonies -- Australia -- History
	Convicts -- Australia -- History
	Australia -- History -- 1788-1900
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 . Convicts -- Australia -- History . Penal colonies -- Australia -- History . Authors: Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012 .