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The fatal shore /

An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 1987, ©1986.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Australia > History > 1788-1900.
Exiles > Australia > History.
Penal colonies > Australia > History.
Australia.
Australia > Exiles.
Colonies pénitentiaires > Australie > Histoire.
Australie > Histoire > 1788-1900.
Australie > Exilés > Histoire.
Exiles.
Penal colonies.
Australia > History > 1788-1851.
Strafkoloniën.
Refugees, Australian > History.
Penal colonies > History.
Australia > History.
1788-1900
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The harbor and the exiles
  • A horse foaled by an acorn
  • The geographical unconscious
  • The starvation years
  • The voyage
  • Who were the convicts?
  • Bolters and bushrangers
  • Bunters, mollies and sable brethren
  • The government stroke
  • Gentlemen of New South Wales
  • To plough Van Diemen's land
  • Metastasis
  • Norfolk Island
  • Toward abolition
  • A special scourge
  • The aristocracy be we
  • The end of the system.