num_pages: 688
description: In 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.
language: English
title: The Fatal Shore
titlecomplete: The Fatal Shore
genres: Australia, Historical, History, 18th Century, Travel, World History, Unfinished, 19th Century, Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 9516
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: Vintage