Botany Bay mirages : illusions of Australia's convict beginnings / Alan Frost
- Bib ID:
- 361959
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Frost, Alan, 1943-
- Description:
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- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1994
- ix, 279 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0522844979 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Overcrowded Hulls, Fetid Sinks?
- 2. Strong Beginnings and Weak Endings?
- 3. Hopes for an Indefinite Future?
- 4. Figments of the Romantick Imagination?
- 5. A Fit of Absence of Mind?
- 6. An Indescribable Hopelessness and Confusion?
- 7. A Neglected Outpost?
- 8. 'No cheaper mode...?'
- 9. Our Original Aggression?
- 10. The Curse of Cain?
- 11. The Barren Years?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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