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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... coast of this utterly enigmatic continent , stopped for a short while at a place named Botany Bay and gone north again . Since then , no ship had called : not a word , not an observation , for seventeen years , each one of which was ...
... coast of this utterly enigmatic continent , stopped for a short while at a place named Botany Bay and gone north again . Since then , no ship had called : not a word , not an observation , for seventeen years , each one of which was ...
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... coast . On top of the cliff , the soil is thin and the scrub sparse . There are banksia bushes , with their sawtooth - edge leaves and dried seed - cones like multiple , jabbering mouths . Against this austere gray - green , the ...
... coast . On top of the cliff , the soil is thin and the scrub sparse . There are banksia bushes , with their sawtooth - edge leaves and dried seed - cones like multiple , jabbering mouths . Against this austere gray - green , the ...
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... coast of Pleistocene Australia should rightly be seen as one of the hinges of human history : it was the first time Homo sapiens had ever colonized by sea . Apart from their northern origin , no one knows who these Pleistocene colonists ...
... coast of Pleistocene Australia should rightly be seen as one of the hinges of human history : it was the first time Homo sapiens had ever colonized by sea . Apart from their northern origin , no one knows who these Pleistocene colonists ...
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... coast , where there was more food and a higher rainfall , the land could support more people . Phillip , after a few months on Sydney Harbor , reckoned that the areas of the Cumberland Plain he had explored sustained about 1,500 blacks ...
... coast , where there was more food and a higher rainfall , the land could support more people . Phillip , after a few months on Sydney Harbor , reckoned that the areas of the Cumberland Plain he had explored sustained about 1,500 blacks ...
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... coast north of lora territory to the Katoomba - Blackheath area of the Blue Mountains in the south . The Daruk , the Iora and the Tarawal ( whose territory began on the south shore of Botany Bay ! were the three tribes with whom the ...
... coast north of lora territory to the Katoomba - Blackheath area of the Blue Mountains in the south . The Daruk , the Iora and the Tarawal ( whose territory began on the south shore of Botany Bay ! were the three tribes with whom the ...
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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