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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... wrote one such visitor in 1784 , " the environs of London become the patrimony of brigands for twenty miles around , " but the government did not improve the police because it was hampered by " clashes of interest " between people and ...
... wrote one such visitor in 1784 , " the environs of London become the patrimony of brigands for twenty miles around , " but the government did not improve the police because it was hampered by " clashes of interest " between people and ...
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... inside . " The prisoners have neither tools nor materials of any kind , " wrote John Howard , the pioneer of penal reform , in the 1770s , but spend their time in sloth , profaneness and debauchery A Horse Foaled by an Acom 37.
... inside . " The prisoners have neither tools nor materials of any kind , " wrote John Howard , the pioneer of penal reform , in the 1770s , but spend their time in sloth , profaneness and debauchery A Horse Foaled by an Acom 37.
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... wrote Camoëns in his praise : " Feeling affronted by his King , he took a route unimagined by others before . " Having opened the westward way to the Spice Islands with his epic voyage , Magellan was killed at Mactan in the Philippines ...
... wrote Camoëns in his praise : " Feeling affronted by his King , he took a route unimagined by others before . " Having opened the westward way to the Spice Islands with his epic voyage , Magellan was killed at Mactan in the Philippines ...
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... wrote the main spokesman for this view , Alan Frost , " was perhaps not so foul as we have long supposed . " " We shall see . In 1779 , the year Captain James Cook was killed by the Hawaiians at Karakakoa Bay , a House of Commons ...
... wrote the main spokesman for this view , Alan Frost , " was perhaps not so foul as we have long supposed . " " We shall see . In 1779 , the year Captain James Cook was killed by the Hawaiians at Karakakoa Bay , a House of Commons ...
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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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