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Before The First Fleet
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Author : John Kenny
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Before The First Fleet written by John Kenny and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
A thoroughly researched account of the first Western encounters with the Aboriginal peoples, curious fauna, and glorious flora of Australia. A gorgeous gift for any historian illustrated in full color.
1788
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Author : David Hill
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2010-10-01
1788 written by David Hill and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with History categories.
An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Set against the backdrop of Georgian England with its peculiar mix of elegance, prosperity, progress and squalor, the story of the First Fleet is one of courage, of short-sightedness, of tragedy but above all of extraordinary resilience. It is also, of course, the story of the very first European Australians, reluctant pioneers who travelled into the unknown - the vast majority against their will - in order to form a colony by order of the King's government. Separated from loved ones and travelling in cramped conditions for the months-long journey to Botany Bay, they suffered the most unbearable hardship on arrival on Australian land where a near-famine dictated that rations be cut to the bone. But why was the settlement of New South Wales proposed in the first place? Who were the main players in a story that changed the world and ultimately forged the Australian nation? How did the initial skirmishes with the indigenous population break out and how did the relationship turn sour so quickly? Using diaries, letters and official records, David Hill artfully reconstructs the experiences of these famous and infamous men and women of history, combining narrative skill with an eye for detail and an exceptional empathy with the people of the past.
The First Fleet
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Author : Rob Mundle
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2014-10-01
The First Fleet written by Rob Mundle and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with History categories.
A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition under sail: the extraordinary eight-month, 17-000-nautical mile voyage of the First Fleet. With customary sweep and swell, Mundle puts you alongside 48-year-old Captain Arthur Phillip on the quarterdeck of the Royal Navy escort, HMS Sirius, as he commands his small armada of 11 ships, carrying over 1420 men, women and children, to the other side of the world.
The First Fleet
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Author : Alan Frost
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2012-12-12
The First Fleet written by Alan Frost and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-12 with History categories.
“Alan Frost is the myth-buster of Australian history...His work should be studied not only by students but anyone interested in the birth of a nation.” — the Age In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Robert Hughes condemned the organisers’ “muddle and lack of foresight”, while Manning Clark described scenes of “indescribable misery and confusion”. In The First Fleet: The Real Story, Alan Frost draws on previously forgotten records to debunk these persistent myths. He shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to the British government’s secret ambitions for imperial expansion. He examines the ships and supplies, passengers and behind-the-scenes discussions. In the process, he reveals the hopes and schemes of those who planned the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it. ‘It is almost certain that Frost knows more than anybody else about the early maritime history of this land ... This book will surely alter the way Sydney sees its history.’ — Geoffrey Blainey, The Weekend Australian
First Fleet Surgeon
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Author : David Hill
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Release Date : 2015-05-01
First Fleet Surgeon written by David Hill and has been published by National Library of Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with History categories.
In a single leather-bound volume of 238 unlined pages of parchment, Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth describes his two-and-a-half year journey with the First Fleet from Portsmouth in England to the new colony in Australia and back. He is a frank, articulate and observant writer, and his diary, a treasure of the National Library of Australia, covers life at sea, stopovers in the slave port of Rio de Janeiro and the tropical paradise of Tahiti, and three months of early settlement in Australia. As surgeon to more than 100 convict women on the Lady Penrhyn, Bowes Smyth gives an insight into the plight of these women, sentenced to transportation, and their children. Their voyage was marked by seasickness, miscarriage, infant deaths, a diet of salted meat and dry hardtack biscuits, and cruel punishment from thumb screws to gagging and flogging with a cat-o’-nine-tails. When they finally set foot on Australian soil, their travails did not end, being set upon by drunken sailors and crew in a ‘scene of debauchery and riot’. Bowes Smyth also describes medical incidents that would make a modern reader squirm, from extracting a ‘jigger worm’ from his own foot to a scurvy outbreak which resulted in bleeding noses, contracted muscles, emaciated bodies and swollen, blackening limbs. There are moments of high drama when mountainous seas threaten to overturn the ship or when passengers fall overboard, as well as calm days at sea spotting porpoises, whales, seals and all manner of sea birds. Upon finally reaching Botany Bay, Bowes Smyth describes ‘the joy which possessed every breast upon so long wished for an event’. He details early encounters with Aboriginal people and the struggles in setting up the new colony, which was plagued from the outset by food shortages, outbreaks of disease and crop failures. He also describes the promiscuity and lax morals of the convicts with typical flair, declaring their audacity ‘not to be equalled amongst a set of villains in any other part of the globe’. In First Fleet Surgeon, author David Hill brings to life the voyage of the Lady Penrhyn and the early months of settlement at Port Jackson (modern-day Sydney) through Bowes Smyth’s colourful language and frank anecdotes. Each chapter includes a page of Bowes Smyth’s handwritten diary entries accompanied by a full transcript, and is richly illustrated with paintings, lithographs and maps from the National Library of Australia’s collection. Information boxes on subjects such as eighteenth-century medical knowledge, brewing beer on board, and a surgeon’s typical day provide context to Bowes Smyth’s story.
The First Fleet Of Auckland
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Author : Darry McCarthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The First Fleet Of Auckland written by Darry McCarthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Auckland (N.Z.) categories.
The Crimes Of The First Fleet Convicts
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Author : John Cobley
language : en
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Release Date : 1970
The Crimes Of The First Fleet Convicts written by John Cobley and has been published by Angus & Robertson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Botany Bay
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Author : Alan Frost
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2012
Botany Bay written by Alan Frost and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Australia categories.
This book digs deeper and sheds new light on the decision to start a colony in Australia. He examines the impact of the American War of Independence and Britain's shifting strategic aims, the role of ministerial incompetence and ambition, and the concerns of a turbulent society obsessed with law and order. In doing so, he questions several accepted ideas about how and why Britain set its sights on an Australian colony.
The First Fleet
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Author : John Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Release Date : 1995
The First Fleet written by John Nicholson and has been published by Allen & Unwin Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Australia categories.
A lively introduction, in words and pictures, to a topic studied by every primary school child in Australia.
Sunburnt Country
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Author : Joelle Gergis
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Sunburnt Country written by Joelle Gergis and has been published by ReadHowYouWant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with categories.
What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles? Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been with us for millions of years, and what climate change looks like in our own backyard. Sunburnt Country highlights the impact of a warming planet on Australian lifestyles and ecosystems and the power we all have to shape future life on Earth.