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In this bestselling account of the colonization of Australia, Robert Hughes explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the European settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the incredible true history of a country.
First published in 1986, this is the US HB 1988. Age spotting to the page block ends. Small bump crease to the back corner.
The definitive work on the earliest history of Colonised Australia, one that does not shrink from the unpalatable truts about te period - convict life, the impact on the native Australians, hardship and cruelty.
Gift inscription to previous owner on inside front enpage.
