In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia...This work presents an epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. "The Fatal Shore" is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

Paperback
02-01-2003
Vintage
9780099459156
198 x 128 mm
688