by Robert Hughes · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330298926
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«The Fatal Shore» is the historical essay by Robert Hughes, published by Pan Books in paperback (720 pages, in English).
The work recounts the transportation of convicts from Georgian England to Australia between 1787 and 1868 and describes the harsh penal system that gave rise to the continent's colonization. It also addresses the experience of free settlers and the impact of displacement on Aboriginal peoples.
The work received the WH Smith Literary Award and the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize.
For readers interested in the history of Australia, the British Empire, and the formation of colonial society.
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes was an Australian 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".
