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The fatal shore [electronic resource] / Robert Hughes.
Draws on diverse original materials to recount the European settlement of Australia, from the 1788 landing of the first prison fleet to 1868.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307815606 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307815609 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource : ill., maps, ports.
- Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1988.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Harbor and the exiles -- Horse foaled by an acorn -- Geographical unconscious -- Starvation years -- Voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- Government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's Land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward oblivion -- Special scourge -- Aristocracy be we -- End of the system -- Appendices: Governor and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855 -- Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53 -- Secretaries of State for the colonies, 1794-1855. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Australia > History > 1788-1900. Exiles > Australia > History. Penal colonies > Australia > History. Australien. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
