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Robert Hughes
The Fatal Shore
The Epic of Australia's Founding
Table of Contents
Cover
Copyright
About the Author
Also by Robert Hughes
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Maps
The Fatal Shore
1. The Harbor and the Exiles
2. A Horse Foaled by an Acorn
3. The Geographical Unconscious
4. The Starvation Years
5. The Voyage
6. Who Were the Convicts?
7. Bolters and Bushrangers
8. Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren
9. The Government Stroke
10. Gentlemen of New South Wales
...—Shakespeare, Richard II, V. v.
The very day we landed upon the Fatal Shore,
The planters stood around us, full twenty score or more;
They ranked us up like horses and sold us out of hand,
They chained us up to pull the plough, upon Van Diemen’s Land.
—Convict ballad, ca. 1825–30.
Contents
Introduction
Maps
1 The Harbor and the Exiles
2 A Horse Foaled by an Acorn
3 The Geographical Unconscious
4 The Starvation Years
5 The Voyage
6 Who Were the Convicts?
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