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QJM Advance Access originally published online on December 17, 2006
QJM 2007 100(1):63-64; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcl136
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John Launer

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For years I had vaguely intended to read ‘The Fatal Shore’, the history of transportation of convicts to Australia, by Robert Hughes.1 However, I have never visited Australia and I have few personal connections there, so the wish remained in the antipodes of my mind rather as the continent did: a desirable but remote destination to be saved up for some indeterminate future time. But the book recently came up as a choice in a book club I belong to, and this coincided with two tentative conversations with colleagues about trips to Sydney and Melbourne. The moment had clearly come to set out on my literary voyage, so I ordered it. When it came, I . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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