Robert Hughes's landmark history of convict transportation to Australia — from the First Fleet in 1787 through to the end of transportation in 1868. Hughes documented the full scale and brutality of the transportation system — the ships, the prisons, the assignment system, the floggings, the Norfolk Island hell and Port Arthur, and the lives of the men, women and children transported from Georgian Britain to the other side of the world.
First published in 1987, The Fatal Shore remains the most widely read single-volume account of Australian convict history, and the book that brought this history to a broad international audience. Van Diemen's Land features prominently — it received more convicts than any other Australian colony, and much of Hughes's most powerful writing covers the Tasmanian experience.
BOOK DETAILS
Softcover.
688 pages, indexed.
Black and white illustrations.
Published 2003 (reprint).
CONDITION
New copy.
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