Bibliograph

The fatal shore, Robert Hughes

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The fatal shore, Robert Hughes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The fatal shore

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

774982173

Responsibility statement

Robert Hughes

Summary

Draws on diverse original materials to recount the European settlement of Australia, from the 1788 landing of the first prison fleet to 1868

Table Of Contents

Harbor and the exiles -- Horse foaled by an acorn -- Geographical unconscious -- Starvation years -- Voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- Government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's Land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward oblivion -- Special scourge -- Aristocracy be we -- End of the system -- Appendices: Governor and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855 -- Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53 -- Secretaries of State for the colonies, 1794-1855

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