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Overview

Here is history on an epic scale—a riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England’s infamous convict transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Bay in 1788 of the First Fleet (“this Noah’s Ark of small-time criminality”)—carrying 736 convicts, men and women—and the arrival of the last ship in 1868; during this period the continent served first as an enormous jail, as England rid herself of a whole unwanted class, and then gradually, painfully transformed itself into a flourishing nation. How this happened, and with what anguish, is...

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Overview

Here is history on an epic scale—a riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England’s infamous convict transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Bay in 1788 of the First Fleet (“this Noah’s Ark of small-time criminality”)—carrying 736 convicts, men and women—and the arrival of the last ship in 1868; during this period the continent served first as an enormous jail, as England rid herself of a whole unwanted class, and then gradually, painfully transformed itself into a flourishing nation. How this happened, and with what anguish, is the story Robert Hughes tells in The Fatal Shore.

"...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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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)
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For 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780307291615
  • Publisher: Sterling
  • Publication date: 3/12/2009
  • Pages: 688
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Hughes has been art critic for Time magazine since 1970. His major eight-part BBC/Time-Life television series, The Shock of the New, was the basis for his 1981 book of the same title, and he is also the author of several earlier books. Hughes has made more than thirty television films on the visual arts, including a ten-part series on the art of Australia. He was born and educated in Sydney, Australia, and now lives in New York City.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 20, 2010

    Australia/US connection

    This book was purchased for preparation for our only trip to Australia. The travel guide book we have talks about visiting prison/ museum and this sparked my interest in learning more about the history. The Aboriginal story of Australia is pretty well documented, but I knew very little about the English penal colony history.
    The connection that threw me a loop, is after 1776, and the Revolutionary war, the US refused to have any more English convicts brought to her shores (In History class, all I remember is the Mayflower...) among other reasons, because 47,000 slaves were coming to our shores yearly from the African continent, greater numbers than England could send for cheap labor.
    England had chosen to not build or repair their prisons, so kept sending them to off-shore countries, and Australia was that far-off colony that could be easily forgotten about.
    I am only into chapter 3, and appreciate the amount of information Robert Hughes has that is not included in school history books. I think the trip to Australia will be much more interesting for having read this book, and from today's economic wows, I also see historically, Americans, as well as other Western cultures, are addiction to cheap labor (whether it is on our shores, or in developing/under developed countries).

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 16, 2003

    An Aussie 'Must Read'

    A vast, absorbing tale of Australia's beginnings. It was a wonderful introduction before our trip Down Under, but by itself the book is a fascinating history. How does a great country arise from a penal colony? This book answers the question.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 6, 2002

    Boring

    I could not finish this book. How mistreated and destitute the convicts were is overstated and reiterated throughout not only the book or each chapter, but on almost every page.

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