{"product_id":"2026100009337-secondhand-the-fatal-shore-a-history-of-the-transportation-of-convicts-to-australia-1787-1868","title":"The Fatal Shore: A History Of The Transportation Of Convicts To Australia, 1787-1868","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor eighty years, Britain solved its overcrowded prison crisis by shipping its convicted criminals to the ends of the earth — and The Fatal Shore stands as the definitive account of that brutal, world-altering experiment. Robert Hughes chronicles the systematic transportation of over 160,000 convicts to the penal colonies of Australia between 1787 and 1868, painting a vivid and harrowing portrait of a society born from chains, suffering, and extraordinary resilience. Drawing on a vast wealth of primary sources — diaries, official records, and the desperate letters of the condemned — Hughes reconstructs the lives of the men, women, and children who were torn from Georgian and Victorian Britain and cast upon an alien continent, transforming a distant shore into what would become a nation.\n\nHughes writes with the narrative sweep of a novelist and the rigorous authority of a historian, weaving together the stories of individual convicts with the grand arc of empire, class warfare, and colonial ambition. The Fatal Shore is not merely a record of punishment; it is a profound meditation on power, identity, and the way a society constructs itself from its darkest origins. Hailed as a masterwork of historical writing upon its publication, this landmark text forces a reckoning with the forgotten foundations of modern Australia — and leaves the reader to wonder how much of that founding violence still echoes in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269337260251,"sku":"2026100009337-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/51f7ae56-36eb-4b6a-94c6-4bb058d35971.png?v=1788998410","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009337-secondhand-the-fatal-shore-a-history-of-the-transportation-of-convicts-to-australia-1787-1868","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}