The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Tiny tear to top right corner of front cover. Interior and binding are still very good.

First published in 1986, Robert Hughes' international bestseller is an epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system that was the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia's European settlement. (back cover)