The Fatal Shore

By: Robert Hughes

Published 1988 by Pan Books (first published 1986)

Category: Business

Pages: 688 pages

ISBN: 9780330298926

Description:
An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen and convicts--and the Aboriginal peoples they displaced.