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The fatal shore
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The fatal shore

Author: Robert Hughes
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1988, ©1986.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Vintage Books edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Hughes
ISBN: 0394753666 : 9780394753669
OCLC Number: 15588855
Description: xviii, 628 p., [40] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Robert Hughes.
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