The Fatal Shore

p>b>An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia/b>br>br>In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.br>br>Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia, i>The Fatal Shore /i>is the definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.br>br>b>'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' i>Times/i>/b>/p> p>b>An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia/b>br>br>In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.br>br>Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia, i>The Fatal Shore /i>is the definitive, masterfully written narrative that has given its true history to Australia.br>br>b>'A unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens' i>Times/i>/b>/p>