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The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore

by Hughes, Robert

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BCE
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780394506685 / 0394506685
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. 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." Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). BCE. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.
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