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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... tried , as far as possible , to see the System from below , through convicts ' testimony -in letters , depositions , petitions and memoirs - about their own experiences . Much of this material is hitherto unpublished , and much more ...
... tried , as far as possible , to see the System from below , through convicts ' testimony -in letters , depositions , petitions and memoirs - about their own experiences . Much of this material is hitherto unpublished , and much more ...
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... tried before , not repeated since . An unexplored continent would become a jail . The space around it , the very air and sea , the whole transparent labyrinth . of the South Pacific , would become a wall 14,000 miles thick . The late ...
... tried before , not repeated since . An unexplored continent would become a jail . The space around it , the very air and sea , the whole transparent labyrinth . of the South Pacific , would become a wall 14,000 miles thick . The late ...
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... tried in Philadelphia -that prison should be a place of isolation , discipline and systematically graded punishment alleviated by precise injections of hope -- was quite new and untried in the reign of George III . It affected neither ...
... tried in Philadelphia -that prison should be a place of isolation , discipline and systematically graded punishment alleviated by precise injections of hope -- was quite new and untried in the reign of George III . It affected neither ...
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... tried again twenty - eight years later , in 1595 , but the Solomons had vanished and not one would find them again for two centuries . They are at about 160 ° E. longitude ; navigational instruments were so inaccurate that their ...
... tried again twenty - eight years later , in 1595 , but the Solomons had vanished and not one would find them again for two centuries . They are at about 160 ° E. longitude ; navigational instruments were so inaccurate that their ...
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... tried other anti - scorbutics : sauerkraut , malt , and half a ton of " portable soup , " made by boiling down meat broth into a gummy cake , the ancestor of the bouillon cube . In combination , these worked . Throughout the three ...
... tried other anti - scorbutics : sauerkraut , malt , and half a ton of " portable soup , " made by boiling down meat broth into a gummy cake , the ancestor of the bouillon cube . In combination , these worked . Throughout the three ...
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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