The Fatal Shore

Autori

• Robert Hughes

Parametri

• 748 pagine
• 27 ore di lettura

• Mappe e viaggi
• Saggistica
• Storia
• Tema stórico
• Viaggi

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In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia...An epic description of 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 prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2003

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