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Author Robert Hughes - Paperback -688 pages -Non-Fiction Printed in AustraliaIn 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 Shore is the prize winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given Australia its true history.A unique phatasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens Peter Ackroyd, The TimesHuges has a story to tell as vivid, large-scale, and appalling as anything by Dickens or Solzhenitsyn, but one thats virtually unknown - until the writing of this splendid book. The Fatal Shore is a great achievement. Susan SontagA triumph of research, passion and fine writing. I found it an extraordinary and compelling book to read, one of fantastic scope and imagination; truly a tour de force. William ShawcrossPopular history in the best sense... its attention to human detail and its commanding prose call to mind the best work of Barbara Tuchman. Washington PostClick on the Detail button near the price for more information.

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