Watkin Tench, a captain of marines, sailed with the First Fleet that carried convicts to New South Wales in 1787. His account runs from the embarkation through Tenerife and Rio de Janeiro to the landing at Botany Bay and Port Jackson, the first months of the settlement at Sydney Cove, its courts and its encounters with the Aboriginal people.
The first published account of the founding of Australia, observant and humane. Download the free EPUB.