Download or read book The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore the reader is given the incredibly detailed history of a nation and people that was often not taught to its own schoolchildren as the past has long been considered a source of shame. This is the riveting story of the founding of Australia from its initial shiploads of criminal convicts landing on the continent in 1788 until independent nation status. It took only 80 years but Australia became a nation despite the inauspicious colonial beginning.