The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's Founding
The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.\ \ \ "...In his marvelous new history, he brings convict Australia to life both in his own words and those of its inhabitants..."--Chicago Sun Times\
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The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps. Publishers Weekly Hughes, art critic at Time, offers a vast and entertaining history of his native land's early years as a ``thief colony,'' i.e., the place to which, beginning in 1788, Britain transported some 160,000 convicts. ``The book abounds with stories of these exiles,'' PW wrote. (February)
IntroductionxiMapsxvii1The Harbor and the Exiles12A Horse Foaled by an Acorn193The Geographical Unconscious434The Starvation Years845The Voyage1296Who Were the Convicts?1587Bolters and Bushrangers2038Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren2449The Government Stroke28210Gentlemen of New South Wales32311To Plough Van Diemen's Land36812Metastasis42513Norfolk Island46014Toward Abolition48515A Special Scourge52316The Aristocracy Be We56117The End of the System581Appendix 1Governors and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855607Appendix 2Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53607Appendix 3Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1794-1855608Abbreviations609Notes611Bibliography656Index671
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ Hughes, art critic at Time, offers a vast and entertaining history of his native land's early years as a ``thief colony,'' i.e., the place to which, beginning in 1788, Britain transported some 160,000 convicts. ``The book abounds with stories of these exiles,'' PW wrote. (February)\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalFor 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters, and original sources, Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation System, the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the colonies, and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind.\ \
