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  The Fatal Shore (Paperback) By (author) Robert Hughes

  

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  Short Description for The Fatal ShoreAn 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.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 01 March 2009
  • Format: Paperback 748 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Penology & Punishment | Australasian & Pacific History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
  • ISBN 13: 9780099448549 ISBN 10: 0099448548
  • Sales rank: 9,716

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Full description for The Fatal Shore

• 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.