| Record Number |
732315 |
| ISBN |
9780099448549 (paperback) |
| Author |
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012 author. |
| Title |
The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Vintage, 2003. |
| Pagination etc. |
xvi, 688 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Bibliography: p. 656-670. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History |
| Convicts -- Australia -- History |
| Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 |
| Shelf Location |
994.01 HUGH |
