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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales

Tench, Watkin

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania

Australia & OceaniaExplorationGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 1108039146
ISBN13: 9781108039147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 29 2011
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte was Watkin Tench (c.1758-1833), who wrote about the voyage of what was later known as the First Fleet. He remained in New South Wales, living in Port Jackson (part of present-day Sydney) from 1788 to 1791, and in this work, published in 1793, he gives a vivid, first-hand account of the early years of British settlement. The chapters are chronologically organised and discuss the many challenges settlers in the fledgling colony faced in staying alive, such as illness and lack of food and other provisions. He also recounts the often violent encounters and 'unabated animosity' between the settlers and the aboriginal people, making this work an important source on the colonisation of Australia.

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