Vintage The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes

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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. The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes od authora Robert Hughes a nakladatelství v kategorii Knihy za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz A fascinating account of the brutal penal system which saw British subjects in the late 18th-century transported to Australia. 16pp b/w illus.