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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Page 15
... Lord Sydney , " made me give the name of Manly Cove to this place . " Iora boys , like young Spartans at play , practiced incessantly with their spears and woomeras . They believed implicitly in the power of their weapons , and a ...
... Lord Sydney , " made me give the name of Manly Cove to this place . " Iora boys , like young Spartans at play , practiced incessantly with their spears and woomeras . They believed implicitly in the power of their weapons , and a ...
Page 16
... lord and master any other cause for dissatisfaction , she would be furiously beaten or even speared . Fertility , the usual protection of women in settled agricultural societies , was a poor shield . A surplus of children would have ...
... lord and master any other cause for dissatisfaction , she would be furiously beaten or even speared . Fertility , the usual protection of women in settled agricultural societies , was a poor shield . A surplus of children would have ...
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... ten - year - old boy , but noblemen could and did hang as well . The famous one was Lord Ferrers , who in a fit of paranoid suspicion blew his steward's brains out in 1760. Convicted and sentenced to hang , the peer 30 THE FATAL SHORE.
... ten - year - old boy , but noblemen could and did hang as well . The famous one was Lord Ferrers , who in a fit of paranoid suspicion blew his steward's brains out in 1760. Convicted and sentenced to hang , the peer 30 THE FATAL SHORE.
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... Lord Ferrers's hanging . People also went to Tyburn to mourn , to reclaim the body of their friend or relative , to give the corpse its due dignity . They waited below the gallows to retrieve it in order to give it a proper burial and ...
... Lord Ferrers's hanging . People also went to Tyburn to mourn , to reclaim the body of their friend or relative , to give the corpse its due dignity . They waited below the gallows to retrieve it in order to give it a proper burial and ...
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... Lord Protector . After 1717 , transportation was stepped up and rendered fully official by a new act , 4 Geo . I , c . 11 , which provided that minor offenders could be transported for seven years to America instead of being flogged and ...
... Lord Protector . After 1717 , transportation was stepped up and rendered fully official by a new act , 4 Geo . I , c . 11 , which provided that minor offenders could be transported for seven years to America instead of being flogged and ...
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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