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FIRST FLEET AND YEAR OF SETTLEMENT, THE 
Series:   AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Author:   Dana Walkens  
RRP:   $7.99
20% Off  $6.40
10+ Copy Price :  $6.40         
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Australian Information 
ISBN:   9781877009501
Category:   Australian History
Published:   29/07/2010
Status:   Out Of Print
This title is no longer in print and is not in stock. You may still order this book and while it is not available currently, you can register an order. If it reprints within 2 years we will automatically supply your order. After 2 years your backorder for Out of Print titles will be deleted, unless you advise us otherwise.


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On 26 January 1788 the First Fleet under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip entered Port Jackson and in a small ceremony took possession for Britain. In this book, Tony Crago tells the story of this great voyage: the enormous dangers faced by the ships full of convicts, crew and livestock as they all made the long journey across the turbulent southern ocean to an unknown and probably hostile environment. This voyage was set against the background of one the most challenging civil events in modern history-the Industrial Revolution in Europe, when thousands of people were out of work and turning to crime. Since there was no room for them in Britain the unhappy victims of circumstance were sent to the American Colonies as convicts but when Britain lost the American War it needed somewhere else to send them. The decision was made to send convicts to Botany Bay. Once they arrived, first at Botany Bay and then a few days later at Sydney Cove, the job of building accommodations and some semblance of the civilisation they had left behind had to quickly begin.



 

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