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Book · 1986 · Nonfiction

The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes
Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 628 pages
★ 5.8 editorial score

Britain shipped 160,000 convicts to Australia between 1787 and 1868. Hughes takes you down into the floggings and the Norfolk Island cells, and out again into the nation they made there.

Setting
Australia
Time
1986Depicts 19th century

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