The Fatal Shore The epic of Australia's founding
by HUGHES, ROBERTFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1988-02-12
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. In 1970, he moved to the United States to become chief art critic for Time, a position he held until 2001. His books include The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, Nothing if Not Critical, The Culture of Complaint, Barcelona, American Visions, A Jerk on One End, Goya, Things I Didn’t Know, and Rome. He is a New York Public Library Literary Lion and was the recipient of a number of literary awards and prizes, including two Frank Jewell-Mather Awards. He is widely held as the most respected art critic of our time.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Maps | p. xvii |
| The Harbor and the Exiles | p. 1 |
| A Horse Foaled by an Acorn | p. 19 |
| The Geographical Unconscious | p. 43 |
| The Starvation Years | p. 84 |
| The Voyage | p. 129 |
| Who Were the Convicts? | p. 158 |
| Bolters and Bushrangers | p. 203 |
| Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren | p. 244 |
| The Government Stroke | p. 282 |
| Gentlemen of New South Wales | p. 323 |
| To Plough Van Diemen's Land | p. 368 |
| Metastasis | p. 425 |
| Norfolk Island | p. 460 |
| Toward Abolition | p. 485 |
| A Special Scourge | p. 523 |
| The Aristocracy Be We | p. 561 |
| The End of the System | p. 581 |
| Governors and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855 | p. 607 |
| Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53 | p. 607 |
| Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1794-1855 | p. 608 |
| Abbreviations | p. 609 |
| Notes | p. 611 |
| Bibliography | p. 656 |
| Index | p. 671 |
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