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The fatal shore / Robert Hughes.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394506685
- ISBN: 9780394506685
- Physical Description: xvi, 688, 41 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Knopf ; 1987, ©1986.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-670) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | 994 HUG (Text) | 000117621 | Nonfiction | Available | - |