Image for The fatal shore  : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

See all formats and editions

In 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.

Read More
Available
£11.24 Save 25.00%
RRP £14.99
Add Line Customisation
12 in stock Need More ?
Add to List
Product Details
Vintage
0099448548 / 9780099448549
Paperback / softback
02/01/2003
United Kingdom
English
704 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
20 cm
general Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1986; London: Collins Harvill, 1987.