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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 Australia its true history

Softcover; A5; 688pp; Maps; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Author: Robert Hughes