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The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes.
Record no.:
1293
Author:
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.;
Publisher:
London :: Collins Harvill,
Year:
1987.
Description:
xvi, 688 pages, 42 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Penal colonies - Australia - History.;
Exiles - Australia - History.;
Australia - History - 1788-1900.;
Notes:
Nagle Library Rare Books Special Collections copy signed on front free endpaper: "J F Nagle, Brae Springs Dec 1987"; copy has inserted: newspaper clipping of book review by Alan Frost from the Weekend Australian Magazine, dated February 21-22 1987.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-670) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0002173611 9780002173612;
Abstract:
1. The Harbor and the exiles -- 2. A horse foaled by an acorn -- 3. The geographical unconscious -- 4. The starvation years -- 5. The voyage -- 6. Who were the convicts? -- 7. bolters and bushrangers -- 8. Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- 9. The
Government stroke -- 10. Gentlement of New South Wales -- 11. To plough Van Diemen's Land -- 12. Metastasis -- 13. Norfolk Island -- 14. Toward abolition -- 15. A special scourge -- 16. The aristocracy be we -- 17. The end of the system.
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