The Fatal Shore

In this bestselling account of the colonization of Australia, Robert Hughes explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today.

Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia.

Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the incredible true history of a country we thought we knew.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/12/1988
ISBN: 9780394753669
Pages: 752
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 1.52d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/11/1987
New York Review of Books 11/16/2006 pg. 14