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The Fatal Shore
The Fatal Shore
Author: Robert Hughes
This history was written to fill a lacuna in Australian origins (as a state, not necessarily the native aborigines) and to present the "feelings and experiences" of the men and women who, according to the author, were treated as mere "statistics, absences and finally embarrassments" in recent scholarship and in the biases of the modern mind. Fur...  more »
ISBN: 165333
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 688
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Book Type: Paperback
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A stunning work of incredible breadth and depth, densely packed with names, dates, and statistics, it nevertheless is an eminently readable account of the settling of Australia, from the forces in England that let to the Transportation system, to the American gold rush that ultimately ended it.


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