George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay
George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay

Author: George Barrington

Publisher: Burns & Oates

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Shrewd publishers exploited the famous name and presented a seamless and colourful assemblage cut from official journals, revealing the extent of close contact with aboriginal peoples, the treatment of convicts and discovery of unusual plants and animals. Bearing all the hallmarks of authenticity, Barrington's account gained a singular place in popular contemporary travel and exploration literature, providing the foundation for a long series of embellished and illustrated histories. Botany Bay's reputation for cruel deprivation often overshadowed tales of opportunity presented to the talented. Barrington's revival as a reformed convict helped transform his own image, while the narrative's insights into the rigours of transportation, the struggle for survival and daily life in the penal colony initiated a lively convict travel literature."--BOOK JACKET.

A Voyage to Botany Bay
A Voyage to Botany Bay

Author: George Barrington

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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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."

Botany Bay
Botany Bay

Author: Alan Frost

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1921870516

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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.

Beating France to Botany Bay
Beating France to Botany Bay

Author: MARGARET. CAMERON-ASH

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780648996125

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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

Botany Bay and the First Fleet
Botany Bay and the First Fleet

Author: Alan Frost

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1743820992

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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.

Voyage to Botany Bay
Voyage to Botany Bay

Author: Chrissie Michaels

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 9781741699111

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I dared not move...I was a bread stealer. A chicken feather villain. A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so ...I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself-her name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She becomes Jules, ship's boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a voyage of discovery for the glory of France, led by Commander Laperouse. Jules/Julienne sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?

Bound for Botany Bay
Bound for Botany Bay

Author: Alan Brooke

Publisher: National Archives UK

Published: 2005-09-30

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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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.

The Road to Botany Bay
The Road to Botany Bay

Author: Paul Carter

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 081666997X

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