Full name: The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

Author: Robert Hughes Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction Culture: Australia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780394753669 0394753666

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps. One of the greatest non-fiction books I've ever read . . . Hughes brings us an entire world. --Los Angeles Times Similar books: A Short History Of Australia by Manning Clark 1788 by David Hill Dancing With Strangers by Inga Clendinnen The Explorers by Tim Flannery Batavia by Peter FitzSimons The Birth of Sydney by Tim Flannery The Tin Ticket by Deborah J. Swiss Cooper's Creek by Alan Moorehead 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Catastrophe by David Keys The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson