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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system.

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Harbor and the Exiles

Chapter 2: A Horse Foaled by an Acorn

Chapter 3: The Geographical Unconscious

Chapter 4: The Starvation Years

Chapter 5: The Voyage

Chapter 6: Who Were the Convicts?

Chapter 7: Bolters and Bushrangers

Chapter 8: Bunters, Mollies and Sable Brethren

Chapter 9: The Government Stroke

Chapter 10: Gentlemen of New South Wales

Chapter 11: To Plough Van Diemen’s Land

Chapter 12: Metastasis

Chapter 13: Norfolk Island

Chapter 14: Toward Abolition

Chapter 15: A Special Scourge

Chapter 16: The Aristocracy Be We

Chapter 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

Notes

Bibliography

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