The Fatal Shore: Robert Hughes (engl.) 688 S.

In this international no. 1 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.

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia. The book documents 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 offering the true history of Australia.