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The fatal shore
- Title
- The fatal shore / Robert Hughes.
- Author
- Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Knopf ; New York : Distributed by Random House, 1987, ©1986.
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- Additional Authors
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Description
- xvi, 688, [41] pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.
- Alternative Title
- Fatal shore : the epic of Australia's founding
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-670) and index.
- Source (note)
- of the Dedalus Foundation;
- Contents
- The harbor and the exiles -- A horse foaled by an acorn -- The geographical unconscious -- The starvation years -- The voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, mollies and sable brethren -- The government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward abolition -- A special scourge -- The aristocracy be we -- The end of the system.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 24-1834
- ISBN
- 0394506685
- 9780394506685
- LCCN
- 86045272
- OCLC
- 13821695
- Author
- Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012, author.
- Title
- The fatal shore / Robert Hughes.
- Imprint
- New York, N.Y. : Knopf ; New York : Distributed by Random House, 1987, ©1986.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-670) and index.
- Local Note
- Copy in ReCAP 24-1834 inscribed.
- Source
- Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1788-1900
- Added Author
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Caption Title
- Fatal shore : the epic of Australia's founding
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 24-1834