The fatal shore
By: Robert Hughes.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
ISBN-13: 9780394753669
Subjects: Exiles -- Australia -- History.; Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.; Australia -- History -- 1788-1900.
Table of contents: title: Harbor and the exiles; title: Horse foaled by an acorn; title: Geographical unconscious; title: Starvation years; title: Voyage; title: Who were the convicts?; title: Bolters and bushrangers; title: Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren; title: Government stroke; title: Gentlemen of New South Wales; title: To plough Van Diemen's Land; title: Metastasis; title: Norfolk Island; title: Toward oblivion; title: Special scourge; title: Aristocracy be we; title: End of the system; title: Appendices: Governor and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855; title: Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53; title: Secretaries of State for the colonies, 1794-1855.