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The Fatal Shore
"One of the greatest non-fiction books I've ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." --Los Angeles Times
Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia.
Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Feb 12nd, 1988
- Pages: 752
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.20in - 1.52in - 1.50lb
- EAN: 9780394753669
- Categories: • Australia & New Zealand - General• Oceania• Social History
About the Author
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What people are saying
“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition, the one with the erratum on page 116.” Don’t follow me on Facebook because I’m not there.
@ratemyskyperoom @PeterSGreenberg Spotted: Two by Robert Hughes — THE FATAL SHORE: The Epic of Australia's Founding (1987) & ROME: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History (2012) MOON: Man's Greatest Adventure; Davis Thomas (1970) FLIGHT: 100 Years of Aviation; R.G. Grant (2010) https://t.co/PGrRLBh5Rr
YA/MG author. Newest: A Season Most Unfair (2023) & The Night Ride (2021). Forthcoming: The Loss of the Burying Ground (2024). She/Her. Rep'd by @joanpaq
@rsscholze Have you read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes? One of the best narrative NF titles I've ever read, about early colonial Australia. Read so much like a novel. I was hooked! #MGBookChat
Praise for this book
"A great achievement: Hughes has a story to tell as vivid, large-scale, and appalling as anything by Dickens or Solzhenitsyn, but one that's virtually unknown--until the writing of this splendid book." --Susan Sontag
"Engrossing . . . richly peopled with bizarre and compelling characters." --The New York Times Book Review
"A magnificent history, with a richness of detail that is as mesmerizing as it is horrifying. . . . It is both passionate and compassionate." --The Washington Post Book World
"Splendid . . . Robert Hughes combines the narrative skills of the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty with the sharp eye of de Tocqueville." --Gorde Vidal
"A brilliant and enduring achievement . . . history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful assessment." --Arthur M. Schlesinger
What people are saying
“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition, the one with the erratum on page 116.” Don’t follow me on Facebook because I’m not there.
@ratemyskyperoom @PeterSGreenberg Spotted: Two by Robert Hughes — THE FATAL SHORE: The Epic of Australia's Founding (1987) & ROME: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History (2012) MOON: Man's Greatest Adventure; Davis Thomas (1970) FLIGHT: 100 Years of Aviation; R.G. Grant (2010) https://t.co/PGrRLBh5Rr