The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012, author1986 - 2003
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:
The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
Creator:
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012, author
Date Published:
1986 - 2003
Language:
English
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