1788. The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: William Heinemann Australia
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 392 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. Eleven Of The Tiniest Ships Sailed For Eight Months Over The Roughest Of Seas, Carrying Fifteen Hundred People, Food For 2years And All The Equipment Needed To Build A Colony Of Convicts In A Land Completely Beyond Their Experience And Imagination.

Publishers Description: Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Set against the backdrop of Georgian England with its peculiar mix of elegance, prosperity, progress and squalor, the story of the First Fleet is one of courage, of short-sightedness, of tragedy but above all of extraordinary resilience. It is also, of course, the story of the very first European Australians, reluctant pioneers who travelled into the unknown - the vast majority against their will - in order to form a colony by order of the Kings government. Separated from loved ones and travelling in cramped conditions for the months-long journey to Botany Bay, they suffered the most unbearable hardship on arrival on Australian land where a near-famine dictated that rations be cut to the bone. But why was the settlement of New South Wales proposed in the first place Who were the main players in a story that changed the world and ultimately forged the Australian nation How did the initial skirmishes with the indigenous population break out and how did the relationship turn sour so quickly

ISBN: 9781741667974