Botany Bay

Author : Alan Frost
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781921870514

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Botany Bay by Alan Frost Pdf

This book digs deeper and sheds new light on the decision to start a colony in Australia. He examines the impact of the American War of Independence and Britain's shifting strategic aims, the role of ministerial incompetence and ambition, and the concerns of a turbulent society obsessed with law and order. In doing so, he questions several accepted ideas about how and why Britain set its sights on an Australian colony.

Author : MARGARET. CAMERON-ASH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648996123

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Beating France to Botany Bay by MARGARET. CAMERON-ASH Pdf

The contest between Arthur Phillip and Jean-Francois Laperouse to get to Botany Bay first and to claim rights to sovereignty of either Britain or France over the Australian continent

Author : Alan Frost
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743820995

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Botany Bay and the First Fleet by Alan Frost Pdf

Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British authorities hoped not only to rid Britain of its excess criminals, but also to gain a key strategic outpost and take control of valuable natural resources. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Here, Alan Frost debunks these myths, and shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to Britain’s imperial and commercial ambitions. In his examination of the ships, passengers and preparation, Frost reveals the hopes and schemes of those who engineered the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it. The culmination of thirty-five years’ study of previously neglected archives, Botany Bay and the First Fleet offers new and surprising insights into how Australia came to be.

Author : George Barrington
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338051110

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A Voyage to Botany Bay by George Barrington Pdf

A Voyage to Botany Bay by George Barrington is an adventurous tale about the deportation of a petty criminal to Australia. Barrington writes a compelling and exciting fictional travelog about the criminal's adventures. Excerpt: "The once popular subject of this sketch was born about 1755, at a village called Maynooth, in Ireland; his father being a working silversmith, and his mother a mantua maker. Nearly ruined by law, they were unable to give their son an education suitable to the early abilities which he discovered."

Author : Arthur Phillip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101074631464

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The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay by Arthur Phillip Pdf

Author : Watkin Tench
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732627677

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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay by Watkin Tench Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : James Dunk
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742244556

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Bedlam at Botany Bay by James Dunk Pdf

Madness stalked the colony of New South Wales and tracing its wild path changes the way we look at our colonial history. What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history, we find out through the tireless correspondence of governors and colonial secretaries, the delicate descriptions of judges and doctors, the brazen words of firebrand politicians, and the heartbreaking letters of siblings, parents and friends. We also hear from the mad themselves. Legal and social distinctions faded as delusion and disorder took root — in convicts exiled from their homes and living under the weight of imperial justice, in ex-convicts and small settlers as they grappled with the country they had taken from its Indigenous inhabitants, and in government officers and wealthy colonists who sought to guide the course of European history in Australia. These stories of madness are woven together into a narrative about freedom and possibilities, unravelling and collapse. Bedlam at Botany Bay looks at people who found themselves not only at the edge of the world, but at the edge of sanity. It shows their worlds colliding.

Author : James Norman Hall,Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338048752

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Botany Bay by James Norman Hall,Charles Bernard Nordhoff Pdf

This novel, set in 18th-century Australia, features an American medical student, Hugh Tallant. He is among a group of men being shipped to Botany Bay to found a new penal colony. On the voyage, he clashes with the Captain of the ship and is determined to mutiny against him.

Author : Alan Brooke,David Brandon
Publisher : National Archives UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120936799

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Bound for Botany Bay by Alan Brooke,David Brandon Pdf

This is the story of an extraordinary period in British criminal history, brought to life through unique surviving records held by the UK National Archives. For over two hundred years, tens of thousands of convicts were sentenced to be 'banished beyond the seas', mostly to Australia and to destinations which became the stuff of legend - Botany Bay, Van Diemen's Land, Norfolk Island. This book follows their epic voyages across the world's oceans, recapturing the perils and unexpected pleasures of life at sea in fresh and fascinating detail.

Author : Dorice Williams Elliott
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821446690

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Transported to Botany Bay by Dorice Williams Elliott Pdf

Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts—used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England’s supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the “true” England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn’t fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people’s sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today.

Author : Sian Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 0648161153

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A Whale of a Day in Botany Bay by Sian Turner Pdf

Have you ever wondered what happens when a whale sneezes? Join Wilbur and his friends as they swim, surf and fly to the bay. This wonderfully illustrated picture book turns the ridiculous into a story of friendship and joy that children will enjoy reading again and again. Wild Eyed Press totally supports the concept paying royalties for the use of manuscripts and artworks. Wild Eyed Press sees this as both a moral and intellectual obligation. When you read this book, you can do so with the knowledge that it was fully created by real people for real people. Creators affiliated with Wild Eyed Press sign contracts to say they do not use Artificial intelligence when illustrating or writing children's books for your child. Written and illustrated by real people for real children. Our creators care about literacy and child welfare. They support you, please support them.

Author : Gerald Hausman,Loretta Hausman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0439403278

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Escape from Botany Bay by Gerald Hausman,Loretta Hausman Pdf

This novel tells the true story of Mary Bryant, a spirited girl in 18th century England, who is sentenced to a prison ship bound for Australia but makes a harrowing escape. Caught stealing a lady's bonnet in Cornwall, England, in 1786, 19-year-old Mary Broad is sentenced to seven years' incarceration on a prison ship bound for Australia. Amid squalid, dangerous conditions below decks, Mary fights for her life and her dignity, and her spirited, outspoken ways rally her fellow prisoners. She also attracts the attention of Watkin Tench, a marine who helps her get food and clothing and whose child she eventually bears. But Tench will not marry her, and Mary is betrothed to Will Bryant, another convict whom she'd known as a child.

Author : Arthur Phillip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Australia
ISBN : OSU:32435017714163

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The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay by Arthur Phillip Pdf

Author : Maria Nugent
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741154887

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Botany Bay by Maria Nugent Pdf

Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia. In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers on a journey to find what lies behind, beneath and beyond these familiar associations. Drawing on stories, objects, images, memories and the landscape itself, she collects the threads of other pasts to weave a rich, compelling and often surprising account. Local meanings jostle with national mythologies, Aboriginal remembrance disturbs white forgetting, the natural environment struggles for survival amid the smokestacks. In the process, Botany Bay becomes a site for meditating on questions of history, myth, memory and politics in Australia. Botany Bay: where histories meet explores the role both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal history-making plays in creating and sustaining local and national communities.

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452942759

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The Road to Botany Bay by Paul Carter Pdf

The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial theater of nineteenth-century imperialism, the book is also a call to think, write, and live differently.