Showing The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
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In 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.
Important places
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- Hobart (32)
- Sydney (739)
Regions
- Tasmania (166)
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- Queensland (599)
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- Australia (6,814)
Other geographical areas
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- Tasman Sea (90)
- Murray-Darling Basin (123)
- Australia And New Zealand (4,260)
- Oceania (8,442)