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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay - With an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, etc. (Paperback)
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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay - With an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, etc. (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
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In May 1787, eleven ships left England with more than seven hundred
convicts on board, along with orders to establish a penal colony at
Botany Bay, New South Wales. Watkin Tench (c.1758 1833) was a crew
member on one of the ships of this First Fleet, the Charlotte, and
he recalls the voyage and early days of the settlement in this
vivid and engaging account, first published in 1789. The first half
of the work retraces the route of the six-month journey, which took
the fleet to Brazil and the Cape of Good Hope. The later chapters
recount the landing at Botany Bay in January 1788, the
establishment of a colony at nearby Port Jackson and observations
about the natural world in this new settlement. Tench also
discusses the initial interaction with the Aboriginal people,
making this work an important source for scholars of British
colonialism and Australian history.
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