Fatal Shore

Hughes, Robert

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Robert Hughes reveals the full extent of Australia’s role as the concentration camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards in the writing of narrative history.

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Publish Date: 02/01/2003

Description

An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.

Documenting 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 definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

‘A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens’ Times

Additional information

Weight 564 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 37 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

688

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

365.3408921094 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K