History - Australia

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 Quarter light grey cloth with light grey paper-covered boards, initials in silver on front board, xxvi, 688 pp, 7 maps, 16 ff b/w plates, notes, bibliography, index. History of Australia's 80 years as a penal colony, from "hundreds of original sources--letters, diaries, obscure documents.... Hughes creates a wonderfully vivid picture of the background of transportation: the squalor and depression behind the gracious facade of Gergian life (in 1797 one in eight Londoners lived by crime), the savage laws designed to deal with the mob." . BCE. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm. more information

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