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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 pages, 41 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Knopf, 1987.
- Distributor: New York : Distributed by Random House
- Copyright: ©1986
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Australia > History > 1788-1900. Exiles > Australia > History. Penal colonies > Australia > History. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Nazareth. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | 994 (Text) | 31001100194381 | Adult Non Fiction | Available | - |
