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THE FATAL SHORE: A HISTORY OF THE TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS TO AUSTRALIA 1787-1868

by Robert Hughes

Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. 1998

Slightly better than very good condition. The epic of Australia's founding. Orange pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Endpapers are maps. A few colour illustrations. xxv and 643 pages including index. Top edge organge.

Slight fading to spine (not obvious). Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

Stock no. 1830153

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Contents

  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Harbour and the Exiles
  • 2 A Horse Foaled by an Acorn
  • 3 The Geographical Unconscious
  • 4 The Starvation Years
  • 5 The Voyage
  • 6 Who Were the Convicts?
  • 7 Bolters and Bushrangers
  • 8 Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren
  • 9 The Government Stroke
  • 10 Gentlemen of New South Wales
  • 11 To Plough Van Diemen's Land
  • 12 Metastasis
  • 13 Norfolk Island
  • 14 Towards Abolition
  • 15 A Special Scourge
  • 16 The Aristocracy Be We
  • 17 The End of the System
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Index

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