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The Fatal Shore

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#335983-XA30
Titel	The Fatal Shore
Auteur	Hughes, Robert
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Vintage
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0099448548
ISBN13	9780099448549
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 authoritative, epic history of the British colonisation of Australia. In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia. Documenting 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 definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia. 'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terro... (Lees verder)rs of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'An enthralling account… brimming over with rare and pungent characters, and tales of pathos, bravery, and horror' Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard
Pagina's	688
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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