Fatal Shore
by HUGHES, Robert
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1860461506
- ISBN 13
- 9781860461507
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Synopsis
An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP46700854
- Title
- Fatal Shore
- Author
- HUGHES, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1860461506
- ISBN 13
- 9781860461507
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- September 5, 1996