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The Fatal Shore
por Hughes, Robert
- Usado
- Bom
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Bom/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394506685
- ISBN 13
- 9780394506685
- Livreiro
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sobre este item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter light grey cloth with light grey paper-covered boards, initials in silver on front board, xxvi, 688 pp, 7 maps, 16 ff b/w plates, notes, bibliography, index. History of Australia's 80 years as a penal colony, from "hundreds of original sources--letters, diaries, obscure documents.... Hughes creates a wonderfully vivid picture of the background of transportation: the squalor and depression behind the gracious facade of Gergian life (in 1797 one in eight Londoners lived by crime), the savage laws designed to deal with the mob." Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). BCE. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.
Sinopse
An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip ZieglerIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-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 Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
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- Livreiro
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Estoque do vendedor nº
- HIAU00001
- Título
- The Fatal Shore
- Autor
- Hughes, Robert
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Near Fine
- Edição
- BCE
- ISBN 10
- 0394506685
- ISBN 13
- 9780394506685
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1987
- Palavras-chave
- History - Australia
- Catálogos de livreiros
- History - Australia;
- X weight
- 64 oz
- Size
- 24 X 16½ cm
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