Hughes, Robert
The fatal shore Robert Hughes. - 1st American ed. - New York, N.Y. : New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 1987, c1986. - xvi, 688, [41] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 656-670.
The harbor and the exiles --
A horse foaled by an acorn --
The geographical unconscious --
The starvation years --
The voyage --
Who were the convicts? --
Bolters and bushrangers --
Bunters, mollies and sable brethren --
The government stroke --
Gentlemen of New South Wales --
To plough Van Diemen's land --
Metastasis --
Norfolk Island --
Toward abolition --
A special scourge --
The aristocracy be we --
The end of the system.
An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.
0394506685 : $24.95
86045272 //r91
Exiles--History.--Australia
Penal colonies--History.--Australia
Australia--History--1788-1900.
DU115 / .H78 1987
994 Hug 15
The fatal shore Robert Hughes. - 1st American ed. - New York, N.Y. : New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 1987, c1986. - xvi, 688, [41] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 656-670.
The harbor and the exiles --
A horse foaled by an acorn --
The geographical unconscious --
The starvation years --
The voyage --
Who were the convicts? --
Bolters and bushrangers --
Bunters, mollies and sable brethren --
The government stroke --
Gentlemen of New South Wales --
To plough Van Diemen's land --
Metastasis --
Norfolk Island --
Toward abolition --
A special scourge --
The aristocracy be we --
The end of the system.
An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.
0394506685 : $24.95
86045272 //r91
Exiles--History.--Australia
Penal colonies--History.--Australia
Australia--History--1788-1900.
DU115 / .H78 1987
994 Hug 15