# The Fatal Shore

- Author: [Robert Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes.md)
- Quotes: 1
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/the-fatal-shore

## Quotes

> If Australia had not been settled as a prison and built by convict labor, it would have been colonized by other means; that was foreordained from the moment of Cook’s landing at Botany Bay in 1770. But it would have taken half a century longer, for Georgian Britain would have found it exceptionally difficult to find settlers crazy or needy enough to go there of their own free will.

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