The Fatal Shore av Robert Hughes

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<p><b>An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia</b><br><br>In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.<br><br>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, <i>The Fatal Shore </i>is the definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.<br><br><b>''A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens'' <i>Times</i></b></p>