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Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia; An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Rome by Robert Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye ov ...Show more
Rome - A Cultural History by Robert Hughes
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life thinking and writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this magisterial book he traces the city's history from its mythic foundation with Romulus and ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Fatal Shore - The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In this bestselling account of the colonization of Australia, Robert Hughes explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world i ...Show more
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
The opening lengthy chapter is a brutal and briliant description of the terrible WA car accident several years ago that nearly took his life and left him physically and mentally shattered. In this beautifully written and searingly honest opening, that could be a small book in itself, Hughes makes you un ...Show more
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a Picasso. From his relat ...Show more
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