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

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

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Book Type: SECONDHAND

ISBN: 9780330298926

Author: Robert Hughes

Edition: 2nd Edition

Publisher: Pan Books

Place: London

Year: 1988

Format: Paperback

Pages: 688 pages

Period: 18th and 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned.

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)

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