The fatal shore /
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| Author / Creator: | Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012. |
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| Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : Knopf, 1987, c1986. |
| Description: | xvi, 688 p., [41] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/807791 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Maps
- 1. The Harbor and the Exiles
- 2. A Horse Foaled by an Acorn
- 3. The Geographical Unconscious
- 4. The Starvation Years
- 5. The Voyage
- 6. Who Were the Convicts?
- 7. Bolters and Bushrangers
- 8. Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren
- 9. The Government Stroke
- 10. Gentlemen of New South Wales
- 11. To Plough Van Diemen's Land
- 12. Metastasis
- 13. Norfolk Island
- 14. Toward Abolition
- 15. A Special Scourge
- 16. The Aristocracy Be We
- 17. The End of the System
- Appendix 1. Governors and Chief Executives of New South Wales, 1788-1855
- Appendix 2. Chief Executives of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-53
- Appendix 3. Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1794-1855
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index