England rejects
V.G. Kiernan, 19 March 1987
The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
by Robert Hughes.
Collins Harvill, 688 pp., £15, January 1987,0 00 217361 1 Show More
by Robert Hughes.
Collins Harvill, 688 pp., £15, January 1987,
Rights of Passage: Emigration to Australia in the 19th Century
by Helen Woolcock.
Tavistock, 377 pp., £25, September 1986,9780422602402 Show More
by Helen Woolcock.
Tavistock, 377 pp., £25, September 1986,
“... On this side of the subject, Hughes’s work has an excellent continuation in the work of Dr Woolcock, a Canadian medical historian. One of her findings is that convicts sometimes underwent less hardship than early shiploads of the free emigrants with whom her book is concerned. For some time transport was left to uncontrolled private enterprise, on the ... ”
