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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... became the province of journalists and novelists . The general public never lost its curiosity about these " dark " years in which so many of its roots lay tangled , and a vivid , trashy Grand Guignol , long on rum , sodomy and the lash ...
... became the province of journalists and novelists . The general public never lost its curiosity about these " dark " years in which so many of its roots lay tangled , and a vivid , trashy Grand Guignol , long on rum , sodomy and the lash ...
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... to disintegrate after Phillip's departure . Bennelong became increasingly sodden and pugnacious with rum , and died at the age of about 40 in 1813 . the staple hunting weapons were the spear , the stone The Harbor and the Exiles II.
... to disintegrate after Phillip's departure . Bennelong became increasingly sodden and pugnacious with rum , and died at the age of about 40 in 1813 . the staple hunting weapons were the spear , the stone The Harbor and the Exiles II.
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... became the equally helpless possession of her husband . The idea of a marriage based on romantic love was as culturally absurd to the Iora as it was to most Europeans . The purpose of betrothal was not , however , to amalgamate property ...
... became the equally helpless possession of her husband . The idea of a marriage based on romantic love was as culturally absurd to the Iora as it was to most Europeans . The purpose of betrothal was not , however , to amalgamate property ...
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... became England's national stupefacient , the heroin of the eighteenth century ( but worse , because its use was far wider ) . Brandy , port , claret and Madeira , the rich man's four tipples , were taxed on import and no workingman ...
... became England's national stupefacient , the heroin of the eighteenth century ( but worse , because its use was far wider ) . Brandy , port , claret and Madeira , the rich man's four tipples , were taxed on import and no workingman ...
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... became conflated , and so the rising crime - rate or rather , the belief that it was rising - became a potent issue . Accordingly , the Georgian legislators fought back against a threat which they believed came from a whole class . The ...
... became conflated , and so the rising crime - rate or rather , the belief that it was rising - became a potent issue . Accordingly , the Georgian legislators fought back against a threat which they believed came from a whole class . 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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