In the original dustsheet. Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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A description of the transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian England into a horrific penal system in Australia.

Reviews:

• Decided to order this after Robert Hughes’ recent sad passing as I had always meant to read it. Good read if you want to understand the beginnings of the white colony in Australia and the reasons why the UK decided to transport people there. Not an easy read to discover the hardships endured by both those transported and the early colonists but also the existing inhabitants – indigenous Australians.

• Possibly the greatest non-fiction book ever written. Reads like a novel, an epic story of crime in Georgian England and the unique creation of a jail from a continent, where the walls are oceans and thousands of miles of wilderness.

• Australia was once a penal colony for petty criminals and people England wanted to get rid of. These deportees were treated harshly and many died.their sad story was seldom told even to present day Australians. This book aims to correct this missing part of the history of human mistreatment of their fellow men. This book preserves their memory to those who want to find out the historical facts.

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as “the most famous art critic in the world.”

Hughes earned widespread recognition for his book and television series on modern art, The Shock of the New, and for his long standing position as art critic with TIME magazine. He is also known for his best seller The Fatal Shore (1986), a study of the British convict system in early Australian history. Known for his contentious critiques of art and artists, Hughes was generally conservative in his tastes, although he did not belong to a particular philosophical camp. His writing was noted for its power and elegance.