Botany Bay And The First Fleet
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Botany Bay And The First Fleet
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Author : Alan Frost
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2019-06-04
Botany Bay And 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 2019-06-04 with History categories.
Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British authorities hoped not only to rid Britain of its excess criminals, but also to gain a key strategic outpost and take control of valuable natural resources. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Here, Alan Frost debunks these myths, and shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to Britain’s imperial and commercial ambitions. In his examination of the ships, passengers and preparation, Frost reveals the hopes and schemes of those who engineered the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it. The culmination of thirty-five years’ study of previously neglected archives, Botany Bay and the First Fleet offers new and surprising insights into how Australia came to be.
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 : 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
A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay
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Author : Watkin Tench
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay written by Watkin Tench and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Travel categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay" by Watkin Tench. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Bound For Botany Bay
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Bound For Botany Bay written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Australia categories.
Tells the story of some 'bolters', transportees escaped from custody, and their bid for freedom: Black Caesar, Michael Howe, the 'cannibal' Alexander Pearce, the despised baby-killer Thomas Jeffery, Matthew Brady, 'Bold' Jack Donohoe and the 'unfortunate Irishman', Martin Cash. Part of the SOSE/HSIE curriculum.
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay
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Author : Arthur Phillip
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-07
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay written by Arthur Phillip and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-07 with categories.
In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. Two more convict fleets arrived in 1790 and 1791, and the first free settlers arrived in 1793. On 18 January 1788 the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay, which Joseph Banks had declared suitable for a penal colony after he returned from a journey there in 1770. Captain Arthur Phillip, the fleet's commander, brought a small party of marines and seamen ashore, but found the location unsuitable because the harbour was unsafe and the area lacked fresh water. The fleet then relocated to Port Jackson. On 21 January 1788 Phillip, with a party of officers and marines, landed at an unnamed place, believed to be the beachfront at Camp Cove (known as 'cadi' to the local Cadigal people). This occasion marks the first landing of members of the First Fleet within Port Jackson, and the first known European landing in Sydney Harbour. After moving further into the harbour, on 26 January 1788 Phillip raised the British flag at Sydney Cove. 751 convicts and their children disembarked, along with 252 marines and their families. Two more convict fleets arrived in 1790 and 1791, and the first free settlers arrived in 1793. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, soldiers and the wives of soldiers. The early convicts were all sent to the colony, but by the mid-1800s they were also being sent directly to destinations such as Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land, Port Macquarie and Moreton Bay. Twenty per cent of these first convicts were women. The majority of women convicts, and many free women seeking employment, were sent to the 'female factories' as unassigned women. The female factories were originally profit-making textile factories. The Parramatta Factory grew as an enclave for pregnant women and also served as an orphanage from the 1830s.
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.
1788 The People Of The First Fleet
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Author : Don Chapman
language : en
Publisher: North Ryde, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia
Release Date : 1981
1788 The People Of The First Fleet written by Don Chapman and has been published by North Ryde, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is an illustrated Who's Who of Australia's First Fleet pioneers - the 1,300 men, women, and children who founded the first European settlement at Sydney Cove. (From verso).
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay
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Author : Arthur Phillip
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1789
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay written by Arthur Phillip and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1789 with Australia categories.
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay
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Author : Arthur Phillip
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay written by Arthur Phillip and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with First Fleet, 1787-1788 categories.
The 1789 edition of 'The Voyage' contained the first account of the new colony of New South Wales to be given by its founder, Governor Arthur Phillip. Although not written by Phillip, the book was based largely on the governor's official dispatches to the home secretary, Lord Sydney. These long and comprehensive reports, worked into a chronological narrative by an anonymous editor, begin with a description of the voyage of the First Fleet and the landing at Botany Bay. They describe the exotic flora and fauna, Phillip's encounters with the Aboriginal people and his efforts to establish amity with them, his explorations around Port Jackson, and his attitude towards the transported convicts. This new edition, which presents the bulk of Phillip's contribution to the original, is illustrated by images from the first edition and by other artists of the First Fleet.