The Fatal Shore The epic of Australia's founding

by HUGHES, ROBERT

• ISBN13: 9780394753669
• ISBN10: 0394753666
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-02-12
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.

Author Biography

Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. In 1970, he moved to the United States to become chief art critic for Time, a position he held until 2001. His books include The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, Nothing if Not Critical, The Culture of Complaint, Barcelona, American Visions, A Jerk on One End, Goya, Things I Didn’t Know, and Rome.  He is a New York Public Library Literary Lion and was the recipient of a number of literary awards and prizes, including two Frank Jewell-Mather Awards. He is widely held as the most respected art critic of our time.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Maps	p. xvii
The Harbor and the Exiles	p. 1
A Horse Foaled by an Acorn	p. 19
The Geographical Unconscious	p. 43
The Starvation Years	p. 84
The Voyage	p. 129
Who Were the Convicts?	p. 158
Bolters and Bushrangers	p. 203
Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren	p. 244
The Government Stroke	p. 282
Gentlemen of New South Wales	p. 323
To Plough Van Diemen's Land	p. 368
Metastasis	p. 425
Norfolk Island	p. 460
Toward Abolition	p. 485
A Special Scourge	p. 523
The Aristocracy Be We	p. 561
The End of the System	p. 581
Governors and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855	p. 607
Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53	p. 607
Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1794-1855	p. 608
Abbreviations	p. 609
Notes	p. 611
Bibliography	p. 656
Index	p. 671
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