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The fatal shore / Robert Hughes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Knopf ; New York : Distributed by Random House, 1987, c1986.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xvi, 688, [41] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0394506685 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 994 19
LOC classification:
  • DU115 .H78 1987
Contents:
The harbor and the exiles -- A horse foaled by an acorn -- The geographical unconscious -- The starvation years -- The voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, mollies and sable brethren -- The government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward abolition -- A special scourge -- The aristocracy be we -- The end of the system.
Holdings
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks DU115.H78 1987 1 Available 33710000029798

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 656-670.

WAR, NEWBERY,

The harbor and the exiles -- A horse foaled by an acorn -- The geographical unconscious -- The starvation years -- The voyage -- Who were the convicts? -- Bolters and bushrangers -- Bunters, mollies and sable brethren -- The government stroke -- Gentlemen of New South Wales -- To plough Van Diemen's land -- Metastasis -- Norfolk Island -- Toward abolition -- A special scourge -- The aristocracy be we -- The end of the system.