The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

The late 18th century saw Britain undertake an extraordinary social experiment in its new territories in the South Pacific. An entire colony was to be turned into one vast prison camp. Australia s first white settlers came ashore from the British prison fleet in Botany Bay in 1788. Those that survived the journey, and the others that came later, were often condemned to starvation, disease and horrifying brutality yet, eighty years later, Australia had become a promised land to many. Robert Hughes s magnificent account of the transportation system and the years that saw Australia s transition from prison camp to nation is history on an epic scale, told with immense passion, panache and colour. His story of life and death on Australia s fatal shore is the finest record yet written of how 160,000 men, women and children were shipped off the face of the known world and yet began a new nation.

Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New, and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art, both written before the present work. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, criticism at its most intelligent and impressive, trenchant, lucid, elegantly written-in the words of William Boyd; a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America, described in the Observer as the most bracing of critical broadsides against new anti-intellectual tyrannies.

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ISBN 13	9781860461507
ISBN 10	1860461506
Titre	The Fatal Shore
Auteur	Robert Hughes
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Vintage Publishing
Année de publication	1996-09-05
Nombre de pages	699
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