THE FATAL SHORE: A HISTORY OF THE TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS TO AUSTRALIA 1787-1868
Written by Robert Hughes
Published by Folio Society
in 1998
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- FOLIO SOCIETY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- AUSTRALIA
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Front cover
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