In 1787, the twentyeighth year of the reign of king george iii, the british government sent a fleet to colonize australiaan 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. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. It also addresses the historical, political and sociological reasons that led to british settlement. In this bestselling account of the colonization of australia, robert hughes explores how. A superb history of australias founding world socialist. The fatal shore is the prizewinning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative. Hughes captures everything in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader everdeeper into specific facts and greater understanding. Digging deep into the dark history of englands infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, hughes has crafted a groundbreaking. The epic of australias founding paperback unabridged, february 12, 1988. I opted to read robert hughess book which tells the story of australias founding and of its convict past. 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. Buy the fatal shore, the epic of australias founding by anonymous isbn. Mather award for distinguished criticism, is author of the shock of the new, and of heaven. An extraordinary volumeeven a masterpieceabout the early history of australia that reads like the finest of novels.
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