Here
is history on an epic scale - a riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth
of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict
transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Bay in 1788
of the First Fleet - carrying 736 convicts, men and women - and the arrival of
the last ship in 1868; during this period the continent served first as an enormous
jail, as England rid herself of a whole unwanted class, and then gradually, painfully
transformed itself into a flourishing nation. How this happened, and with what
anguish, is the story Robert Hughes tells in The Fatal Shore.
Hardbound in excellent condition.
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