The Fatal Shore History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 By Robert Hughes

SOFTBACK - sun faded, foxed, and tanned. 720 pages Published by Pan Books, 1988 ISBN: 0330298925 13 maps. 19.7 x 13 centimetres (0.37 kg)

A description of the transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian England into a horrific penal system in Australia.

For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters, and original sources, Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation System, the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the colonies, and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries.

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