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Book The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

Download or read book The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay written by Arthur Phillip and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of the First Fleet 1787 1788  Taken from Contemporary Accounts

Download or read book The Voyage of the First Fleet 1787 1788 Taken from Contemporary Accounts written by Victor Crittenden and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official reasons for founding a British settlement in Australia, the officers, crew and convicts chosen, the voyage, arrival at Botany Bay, contact with aborigines.

Book The First Fleet

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  • Author : Alan Frost
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1459624947
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The First Fleet written by Alan Frost and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1500 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.

Book A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

Download or read book A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson written by Watkin Tench and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1961-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it is recollected how much has been written to describe the Settlement of New South Wales, it seems necessary if not to offer an apology, yet to assign a reason, for an additional publication. The embarked in the fleet which sailed to found the establishment at Botany Bay. He shortly after published a Narrative of the Proceedings and State of the Colony, brought up to the beginning of July, 1788, which was well received, and passed through three editions. This could not but inspire both confidence and gratitude; but gratitude, would be badly manifested were he on the presumption of former favour to lay claim to present indulgence. He resumes the subject in the humble hope of communicating information, and increasing knowledge, of the country, which he describes. He resided at Port Jackson nearly four years: from the 20th of January, 1788, until the 18th of December, 1791. To an active and contemplative mind, a new country is an inexhaustible source of curiosity and speculation. It was the author's custom not only to note daily occurrences, and to inspect and record the progression of improvement; but also, when not prevented by military duties, to penetrate the surrounding country in different directions, in order to examine its nature, and ascertain its relative geographical situations. The greatest part of the work is inevitably composed of those materials which a journal supplies; but wherever reflections could be introduced without fastidiousness and parade, he has not scrupled to indulge them, in common with every other deviation which the strictness of narrative would allow. When this publication was nearly ready for the press; and when many of the opinions which it records had been declared, fresh accounts from Port Jackson were received. To the state of a country, where so many anxious trying hours of his life have passed, the author cannot feel indifferent. If by any sudden revolution of the laws of nature; or by any fortunate discovery of those on the spot, it has really become that fertile and prosperous land, which some represent it to be, he begs permission to add his voice to the general congratulation. He rejoices at its success: but it is only justice to himself and those with whom he acted to declare, that they feel no cause of reproach that so complete and happy an alteration did not take place at an earlier period.

Book 1788  the People of the First Fleet

Download or read book 1788 the People of the First Fleet written by Don Chapman and published by North Ryde, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Book A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay

Download or read book A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay written by Watkin Tench and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The First Fleet

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  • Author : Rob Mundle
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
  • Release : 2014-10-01
  • ISBN : 1460700627
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book The First Fleet written by Rob Mundle and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Voyage of the First Fleet 1787 1788  Taken from Contemporary Accounts

Download or read book The Voyage of the First Fleet 1787 1788 Taken from Contemporary Accounts written by Victor Crittenden and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official reasons for founding a British settlement in Australia, the officers, crew and convicts chosen, the voyage, arrival at Botany Bay, contact with aborigines.

Book Napoleon

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  • Author : Ted Gott
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780724103553
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Napoleon written by Ted Gott and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social change with the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the rise to power of the young Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine.

Book The First Fleet

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  • Author : Jonathan King
  • Publisher : South Melbourne : Macmillan
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The First Fleet written by Jonathan King and published by South Melbourne : Macmillan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anglican Eucharist in Australia

Download or read book The Anglican Eucharist in Australia written by Brian Douglas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history, theology and liturgy of the Eucharist in the Anglican Church of Australia from its earliest foundation after the arrival of British settlers in 1788 to the present.

Book The Second Fleet

Download or read book The Second Fleet written by Michael Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Founders of Australia

Download or read book The Founders of Australia written by Mollie Gillen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On 13 May 1787 more than 1,500 people sailed with the eleven ships of the First Fleet to become the founders of the modern nation of Australia. After 20 years of research Mollie Gillen has produced the most comprehensive study to date of the people of the First Fleet. Based largely on original sources in Britain and Australia, it functions both ad a detailed historical reference work with much new information and also as a very readable social history. Every person who sailed with the First Fleet or was born on board has been included whether a child, convict, sailor, marine or officer. The result is a fascinating series of pen-pictures in a total of 1,442 biographical entries. The background of each first Fleeter is examined (including the circumstances of the crime and trial of each convict) as well as their lives after 1788 as they spread throguh New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's land and in some cases, returned to England ... The book includes extensive explanatory notes, is fully indexed with a number of maps, illustrations, and the facsimile signatures and marks of hundreds of First Fleeters. Twelve appendices include abstracts of biographical information, descriptions of the First Fleet ships and their crews, a chronology of the First Fleet, miscellaneous facts of interest, statistics and the "Phantom Fleeters": persons inaccurately claimed in earlier publications to be First Fleeters ..."--Inside front cover.

Book The Sydney Wars

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  • Author : Stephen Gapps
  • Publisher : NewSouth
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 1742244246
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book The Sydney Wars written by Stephen Gapps and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians – described as ‘this constant sort of war’ by one early colonist – around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817. The Sydney Wars sheds new light on how British and Aboriginal forces developed military tactics and how the violence played out. Analysing the paramilitary roles of settlers and convicts and the militia defensive systems that were deployed, it shows that white settlers lived in fear, while Indigenous people fought back as their land and resources were taken away. Stephen Gapps details the violent conflict that formed part of a long period of colonial strategic efforts to secure the Sydney basin and, in time, the rest of the continent. ‘A powerful and cogent contribution to one of the most contentious aspects of Australian history: the war between British settlers and the First Nations. The fine detailed research will mean that we will have to radically reassess our understanding of the history of the first thirty years of settlement.’ —Henry Reynolds

Book The First Fleet 1788

Download or read book The First Fleet 1788 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1787

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  • Author : Nick Brodie
  • Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 1743584539
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book 1787 written by Nick Brodie and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 200 years Australia’s official history has focused on English colonisation and ‘discovery’, with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the history books. 1787 traces the journey of Australia before the infamous 1788 date, to explore just how ‘discovered’ the southern continent was by not only the Indigenous Australians who had lived and prospered for thousands of years, but also the sailors, traders, fishermen and many others who had visited our shores. This is not about voyages of ‘discovery’, cartography, geography, or hero-captains and their sailing ship adventures. This is a bigger history—of the rise and fall of empires, the shifts in global economies, and their impact on Australia. By charting the encounters with Australia and its original people by several major groups of visitors, primarily the Portuguese, Dutch, Malay, French, and British from the late Middle Ages, 1787 reveals the stories of first encounters between Indigenous Australians and foreigners, placing Indigenous Australians back into our known history rather than a timeless pre-historical one. It’s a fascinating story that shifts focus away from post-colonial history and engages the reader in the eventful and lively stories of Australia as a vast and active land participating in a global history.