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010 _a9780099459156
090 _9317065
101 _aeng
_ceng
102 _aAUS
200 _aThe fatal shore
_bLIV
_fRobert Hughes
210 _a[S.l.]
_cVintage Books
_d2003
215 _a1 vol. (688p.)
_d24 cm
_cill.
330 _an 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia... An epic description of 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 prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
345 _a32,95 $au
606 _aHistory
_yAustralia
676 _a994
700 _aHughes
_bRobert
801 _aFR
_bMO
_c20120723