The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
Hughes, Robert, 1938-20122003
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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.
Main title:
Author:
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2003.©1986.
Collation:
xvi, 688 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portaits ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Collins Harvill, 1987.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099448549
Dewey class:
994.02365.3408921094
Language:
English
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BRN:
634297