The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes. Vintage Books USA, $19.95 (752pp) ISBN 978-0-394-75366-9
Hughes, art critic at Time, offers a vast and entertaining history of his native land's early years as a ""thief colony,'' i.e., the place to which, beginning in 1788, Britain transported some 160,000 convicts. ``The book abounds with stories of these exiles,'' PW wrote. (February)
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Reviewed on: 02/12/1988
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 688 pages - 978-0-00-217361-2
Hardcover - 688 pages - 978-0-394-50668-5
Open Ebook - 686 pages - 978-0-307-81560-6
Prebound-Sewn - 978-1-4177-1126-0
