Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay - With an Account of Establishment of Colonies of Port Jackson Norfolk

This 1789 work describes the voyage of the First Fleet, and the birth of one of the world's great cities.

List of contents

Advertisement; View of the fleet; List of subscribers; 1. Public utility of voyage; 2. Preparation of fleet; 3. Reasons for touching at the Canary Isles; 4. Attempt to put in at Port Praya; 5. Prosperous passage from Rio to the Cape; 6. First interview with the natives; 7. Removal from Botany Bay; 8. Description of Port Jackson; 9. A criminal court held; 10. Departure of the French ships; 11. Three of the transports cleared; 12. The supply returns from Lord Howe Island; 13. Particular description of Sydney Cove; 14. Fish violently seized by the natives; 15. Some specimens of animals from New South Wales; 16. Papers relative to the settlement at Port Jackson; 17. Nautical directions; 18. Concise account of Lieutenant Shortland; 19. Appearance of the scurvy; 20. Lieutenant Watts's narrative; 21. The Scarborough leaves Port Jackson; 22. Supplemental account of animals from New South Wales; Appendix.

Summary

This 1789 work is an edited compilation of official papers, journals and illustrations relevant to the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia and the founding of Port Jackson on Sydney Cove, and of the penal colony of Norfolk Island, illustrating the birth of one of the world's great cities.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Phillip, Phillip Arthur
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2015
• EAN: 9781108083829
• ISBN: 978-1-108-08382-9
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Travel > Travel guides > World, Arctic, Antarctic; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history