Published in 1789 from the first governor’s own dispatches, this account follows the fleet that carried convicts and marines from England to New South Wales, the choice of Sydney Cove over Botany Bay, the first months of the settlement at Port Jackson and the outpost on Norfolk Island, with notes on the coast, the Aboriginal people and the strange new animals.
A founding document of modern Australia, written while the colony was barely a year old. Download the free EPUB.