1788. The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: William Heinemann Australia
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 392 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Eleven Of The Tiniest Ships Sailed For Eight Months Over The Roughest Of Seas, Carrying Fifteen Hundred People, Food For 2years And All The Equipment Needed To Build A Colony Of Convicts In A Land Completely Beyond Their Experience And Imagination.

Publishers Description: In 1788, 11 small ships set sail from England on an eight-month-long voyage over the roughest of seas, carrying 1,500 people, food for two years, and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts in a land completely beyond their experience and imagination. In Portsmouth, the fleets preparation was characterized by disease, promiscuity, and death. The journey itself was one of unbearable hardship, but also of extraordinary resilience. Upon their arrival, however, the colonists faced their biggest challenges of all: conflict, starvation, and despair. Combining the skill of a vigilant journalist with the magic of a master novelist, this entrancing history brings the sights, sounds, sufferings, and joys of the “First Fleeters back to life. Journals, letters, reports, and pleas to England are all interwoven here with the authors own insight, and together they convey the innermost horrors and joys of the very first European Australians. The result is a narrative history that is surprising, compelling, and unforgettable.

ISBN: 9781741667974