|
|
HUGHES, ROBERT ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
HUGHES, ROBERT The fatal shore. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 0394506685 / 9780394506685 Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 688 pages, 16 plates, 6 maps, cloth, dust jacket, 1st edition, very good. From the dj: Here is history on an epic scale - a riveting brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Bay in 1788 of the First Fleet ('this Noah's Ark of small-time criminality') - carrying 736 convicts, men and women - and the arrival of the last ship in 1868, during this period the continent served first as an enormous jail, as England rid herself of a whole unwanted class, and then gradually, painfully transformed itself into a flourishing nation. How this happened, and with what anguish, is the story Robert Hughes tells in The Fatal Shore. The detail is fascinating. Drawings upon hundreds of original sources - letters, diaries, obscure documents (many of them never used before) Hughes creates a wonderfully vivid picture of the background of transportation: the squalor and depression behind the gracious façade of Georgian life (in 1979 one in eight Londoners lived by crime), the save laws designed to deal with the mob. Price:
25.00 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
HUGHES, ROBERT on Adamsavebooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Ahabbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Argosybooks.ca HUGHES, ROBERT on Blackflamebooks.co.uk HUGHES, ROBERT on Bookarc.com.au HUGHES, ROBERT on Brainiacbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Ciaokatzbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Clentbooks.co.uk HUGHES, ROBERT on Coasbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Crawfordsnautical.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Daveshootsbookseller.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Dustjacket.ca HUGHES, ROBERT on Elpinarillobooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Goodwillbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Grenadierbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Hgbooks.com
| HUGHES, ROBERT on Infinitybooksjapan.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Johnbalebooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Kingchampbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Leftcoastbooks.us HUGHES, ROBERT on Marblehillbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Marshwigglebooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Molliesloft.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Monkeyread.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Mybookiejoint.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Naughtonsbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Newbostonfineandrarebooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Ontheroadbookshop.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Pagemaster-books.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Pinaclebooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Pomfretstreetbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Ptpbooks.com
| HUGHES, ROBERT on Riversedgebooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Rodneysbookstore.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Rosesarereadbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Seaoceanbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Seattlebookcenter.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Serendipitybooks.com.au HUGHES, ROBERT on Turtlecreekbooks.ca HUGHES, ROBERT on Txstarbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Unclephilsbooks.co.uk HUGHES, ROBERT on Vagabondbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Warrenartbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Wisestreetbooks.com HUGHES, ROBERT on Yesteryearbooks.co.uk |
|
|