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The fatal shore

Summary: Draws on diverse original materials to recount the European settlement of Australia, from the 1788 landing of the first prison fleet to 1868.

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  • ISBN: 9780307815606 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307815609 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource : ill., maps, ports.
  • Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1988.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Harbor and the exiles -- Horse foaled by an acorn -- Geographical unconscious -- Starvation years -- Voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren -- Government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's Land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward oblivion -- Special scourge -- Aristocracy be we -- End of the system -- Appendices: Governor and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855 -- Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53 -- Secretaries of State for the colonies, 1794-1855.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Australia -- History -- 1788-1900
Exiles -- Australia -- History
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History
Australien
Genre: Electronic books.

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