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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
Watkin, 1759?-1833 Tench
90 pages~1 hr 48 min read41 chapters$4.99
An officer sails with the First Fleet to plant a convict colony on the far side of the world. Watkin Tench records the long voyage, the landfall at Botany Bay, and the first raw months of European Australia with a clear, humane eye. A firsthand account of a continent's founding. Witness the birth of Sydney through a young marine's journal.
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41 chapters
- 1A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
- 2Watkin Tench
- 3Table of Contents
- 4INTRODUCTION
- 5CHAPTER I
- 6From the Embarkation of the Convicts, to the Departure of the Ships from England.
- 7CHAPTER II.
- 8From the Departure, to the Arrival of the Fleet at Teneriffe.
- 9CHAPTER III.
- 10From the Fleet's Arrival at Teneriffe, to its Departure for Rio de Janeiro, in the Brazils.
- 11CHAPTER IV.
- 12The Passage from Teneriffe to Rio de Janeiro, in the Brazils.
- 13CHAPTER V.
- 14From the Arrival of the Fleet at Rio de Janeiro, till its Departure for the Cape of Good Hope; with some Remarks on the Brazils.
- 15CHAPTER VI.
- 16The Passage from the Brazils to the Cape of Good Hope; with an Account of the Transactions of the Fleet there.
- 17CHAPTER VII.
- 18The Passage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay.
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