The Fatal Shore
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| - | '''''The Fatal Shore. The epic of Australia's founding''''', by [[Robert Studley Forrest Hughes|Robert Hughes]], published 1987 by Harvill Press, is a historical account of the [[United Kingdom]]'s settlement of [[Australia]] as a [[penal colony]] with convicts. The book details the period 1770 onwards through white settlement to the 1840s, when Australia was established as a European outpost. The book explains many of the origins of the Australian character and being, such as the Australian support for [[Bushranger]]s, the underdog and the dislike between the [[English people|English]] and [[Irish people|Irish]] and their religions. It won the [[WH Smith Literary Award]] in [[1988]]. | + | '''''The Fatal Shore. The epic of Australia's founding''''', by [[Robert Hughes]], published [[1987]] by Harvill Press, is a historical account of the [[United Kingdom]]'s settlement of [[Australia]] as a [[penal colony]] with convicts. The book details the period 1770 onwards through white settlement to the 1840s, when Australia was established as a European outpost. The book explains many of the origins of the Australian character and being, such as the Australian support for [[Bushranger]]s, the underdog and the dislike between the [[English people|English]] and [[Irish people|Irish]] and their religions. |
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The Fatal Shore. The epic of Australia's founding, by Robert Hughes, published 1987 by Harvill Press, is a historical account of the United Kingdom's settlement of Australia as a penal colony with convicts. The book details the period 1770 onwards through white settlement to the 1840s, when Australia was established as a European outpost. The book explains many of the origins of the Australian character and being, such as the Australian support for Bushrangers, the underdog and the dislike between the English and Irish and their religions.
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