An edition of The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia 1787-1868
(1986)
The fatal shore
1st Vintage Books ed.
by Robert Hughes
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Incredibly rich and detailed account of the first white settlers that arrived in Australia, and what they found when they arrived. Riveting.
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1988
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Vintage Books
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History, Penal colonies, Exiles, convicts, colonialism, Australian history, pioneers, Aborigines, Aboriginal Australians, maritime history, Strafkoloniën, Exilés, Histoire, Colonies pénitentiaires, Australia, 1788-1900, Australian Refugees, Australia, discovery and exploration, Australia, historyTimes
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The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia 1787-1868.
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The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia 1787-1868
1988, Pan Books, Pan Books Ltd
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The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
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The fatal shore
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Table of Contents
Harbor and the exiles
Horse foaled by an acorn
Geographical unconscious
Starvation years
Voyage
Who were the convicts?
Bolters and bushrangers
Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren
Government stroke
Gentlemen of New South Wales
To plough Van Diemen's Land
Metastasis
Norfolk Island
Toward oblivion
Special scourge
Aristocracy be we
End of the system
Appendices: Governor and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855
Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53
Secretaries of State for the colonies, 1794-1855.
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| August 4, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fix duplicate goodreads IDs. |
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| April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
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