Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
by Hughes, Robert
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0394753666
- ISBN 13
- 9780394753669
- Seller
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Monroe, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
unused book from closed bookstore inventory; clean, tight and square, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, text is clean and unmarked, some printer's wrinkles on the spine; trade paperback
Synopsis
An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-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.
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- Bookseller
- Book Nook Monroe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 501479
- Title
- Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
- Author
- Hughes, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394753666
- ISBN 13
- 9780394753669
- Publisher
- Vintage Books / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 688
- Size
- 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4" tall
- Keywords
- history, Australia, penal colony
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - World;