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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 Shoreis the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
Author: Robert Hughes
ISBN: 9780099448549
Type: Paperback
Pages: 720
Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published Date: January 2003
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 Shoreis the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
Author: Robert Hughes
ISBN: 9780099448549
Type: Paperback
Pages: 720
Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published Date: January 2003
