The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes

"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...

The Martian

Andy Weir

Robinson Crusoe on Mars A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. I'm stranded on Mars.I have no way to communicate with Earth.I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days.If the Oxygenator breaks...