The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

Robert Hughes

688 pages first pub 1986 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Here is history on an epic scale -- a riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Bay in 178...

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