The fatal shore / Robert Hughes.
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TextPublisher: New York : Distributed by Random House. Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Knopf, 1987Publisher: �1986Edition: First American editionDescription: xvi, 688, 41 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0394506685
- 9780394506685
- 994 19
- DU115 .H78 1987
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-670) and index.
The harbor and the exiles -- A horse foaled by an acorn -- The geographical unconscious -- The starvation years -- The voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, mollies and sable brethren -- The government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward abolition -- A special scourge -- The aristocracy be we -- The end of the system.
An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.
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