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ROBERT HUGHES - The Fatal Shore. History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

Title: The Fatal Shore. History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
Description: Collins Harvill, 1987. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 688. "In 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 Shoreis the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.". ISBN: 9780002173612. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780002173612

Price: EUR 9.50 = appr. US$ 10.33 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 173555

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