Christopher, Emma,  1971- <br/><br/>
A merciless place :  the lost story of Britain's convict disaster in Africa and how it led to the settlement of Australia / 
Emma Christopher. 
 - Crows Nest, N.S.W. :  Allen & Unwin,  2010. 
 - 448 p., [12] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.), ports., maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-427) and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Bound for America.--2. Mr Jefferson and Patrick Madan.--3. London in Flames.--4. The 'Best Sacrifices for Death'.--5. Africa.--6. Battle for the Coast.--7. Deserting the Enemy.--8. A Plantation with Slaves.--9. A Mutiny and a Most Peculiar Murder.--10. Trouble at Goree Island.--11. 'Naked and Diseased on the Sandy Shore'.--12. Trying America Again.--13. The Once Mighty Have Fallen.--14. Lemane Island.--15. The End of the African Disaster. 
<br/><br/> In this book, the author has found the 'missing link' between the American Revolution and The Fatal Shore, and tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781742372273 (pbk.) 1742372279 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Land settlement--History.--Australia
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Australia--Emigration and immigration--History.<br/>Australia--Colonization--History.<br/>Australia--History--1788-1900.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DU115  / .C475 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>994.02