The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's foundingNATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's 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, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew. |
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... chains , got their tickets - of - leave and in due course were absorbed into colonial society as free citizens . Most of them ( if one can judge by the surviving letters ) wanted to stay in Australia and rejected the idea of going back ...
... chains , got their tickets - of - leave and in due course were absorbed into colonial society as free citizens . Most of them ( if one can judge by the surviving letters ) wanted to stay in Australia and rejected the idea of going back ...
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... chains . Other parts of the Pacific , especially Tahiti , might seem to confirm Rousseau . But the intellectual patrons of Australia , in its first colonial years , were Hobbes and Sade . In their most sanguine moments , the authorities ...
... chains . Other parts of the Pacific , especially Tahiti , might seem to confirm Rousseau . But the intellectual patrons of Australia , in its first colonial years , were Hobbes and Sade . In their most sanguine moments , the authorities ...
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... chain of magnesium flares . Bushfire is the natural enemy of property . But the black Australians had no property and did not hesitate to burn off a few square miles of territory just to catch a dozen goannas and marsupial rats , at the ...
... chain of magnesium flares . Bushfire is the natural enemy of property . But the black Australians had no property and did not hesitate to burn off a few square miles of territory just to catch a dozen goannas and marsupial rats , at the ...
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... chains " though often denounced as a national disgrace , survived well into the 1790s . One paid for food , for drink - the prison tap room , dispensing gin , was a prime source of income for jailers - for bedding , water and even air ...
... chains " though often denounced as a national disgrace , survived well into the 1790s . One paid for food , for drink - the prison tap room , dispensing gin , was a prime source of income for jailers - for bedding , water and even air ...
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... chain - gang labor as punishment for criminals was rejected by the Lords partly because security was too great a problem but mainly because the sight of chain gangs in public places was felt to be degrading . How could onlookers ...
... chain - gang labor as punishment for criminals was rejected by the Lords partly because security was too great a problem but mainly because the sight of chain gangs in public places was felt to be degrading . How could onlookers ...
Contents
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The Starvation Years | 84 |
The Voyage | 129 |
Who Were the Convicts? | 158 |
Bolters and Bushrangers | 203 |
Bunters Mollies and Sable Brethren | 244 |
Metastasis | 425 |
Norfolk Island | 460 |
Toward Abolition | 485 |
A Special Scourge | 523 |
The Aristocracy Be We | 561 |
The End of the System | 581 |
Governors and Chief Executives of New South Wales 17881855 | 607 |
Bibliography | 656 |
The Government Stroke | 282 |
IO Gentlemen of New South Wales | 323 |
To Plough Van Diemens Land | 368 |
Index | 671 |
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