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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.
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Exiles -- Australia -- History.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900.
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The fatal shore [ele...
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The fatal shore [electronic resource] / Robert Hughes.
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Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.
New York : Vintage Books, 1988.
Subjects
Exiles -- Australia -- History.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900.
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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=8F3844E3-CFA7-4977-92C8-F40CDB907C05
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ISBN:
9780307815606 (electronic bk.)
0307815609 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource : ill., maps, ports.
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
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.
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Draws on diverse original materials to recount the European settlement of Australia, from the 1788 landing of the first prison fleet to 1868.
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