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The cover of The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

★★★★★Shelved Feb 25, 2023

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Goodreads readers give it 4.09★, from 10,655 ratings. I gave it 4★, −0.1, where I'm usually −0.9: I liked it more than most.
Readers call it History, Australia, World History, Historical, Travel, Classics, 18th Century, 19th Century.
Won WH Smith Literary Award 1988, Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 1987.