The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787 - 1868
de Hughes, Robert
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- VG : in very good condition with black slipcase
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Alnwick, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Barter Books Ltd (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- fol445da
- Título
- The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787 - 1868
- Autor
- Hughes, Robert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Brown/black/gilt pictorial hardback cloth covers
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG : in very good condition with black slipcase
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Second printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Folio Society
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- Folio Society, Fiction
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