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An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.

Documenting 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 definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' Times

The Fatal Shore

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An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 02/01/2003
    ISBN13: 9780099448549, 978-0099448549
    ISBN10: 0099448548

    Number of Pages: 720

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

    In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.

    Documenting 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 definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

    'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' Times

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