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The Fatal Shore A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

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Publisher's Synopsis

The authoritative, epic history of the British colonisation of Australia.

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.

Documenting 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 definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' Peter Ackroyd, The Times

'An enthralling account… brimming over with rare and pungent characters, and tales of pathos, bravery, and horror' Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099448549
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 365.3408921094
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 688
Weight: 566g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 40mm