Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-670) and index

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Index

index present

Intended audience

General

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The fatal shore

Responsibility statement

Robert Hughes

Sub title

a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

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

Table Of Contents

1. The Harbor and the exiles -- 2. A horse foaled by an acorn -- 3. The geographical unconscious -- 4. The starvation years -- 5. The voyage6. Who were the convicts? -- 7. bolters and bushrangers -- 8. Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- 9. The Government stroke -- 10. Gentlement of New South Wales -- 11. To plough Van Diemen's Land -- 12. Metastasis -- 13. Norfolk Island -- 14. Toward abolition -- 15. A special scourge -- 16. The aristocracy be we -- 17. The end of the system

Target audience

adult

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