A Voyage to Botany Bay

A Voyage to Botany Bay

Author: George Barrington

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 102

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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."


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

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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."


Transported to Botany Bay

Transported to Botany Bay

Author: Dorice Williams Elliott

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 082144669X

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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.


A Sequel To A Voyage to Botany Bay

A Sequel To A Voyage to Botany Bay

Author: George Barrington

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 44

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A Sequel To A Voyage to Botany Bay is a book by George Barrington. Barrington was an Irish author. Excerpt: "Two Spanish Ships, upon a voyage of discovery, came into the harbour, called the Discovery and the Intrepid, the former wore the broad pendant of a Commodore. They had been three years and a half from Europe, and had ran down the coast of South America, visiting all the Spanish possessions, and precisely ascertaining their boundaries, and situations, whereby they had gained much information."


Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia

Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia

Author: John Lang

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 171

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Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia is a collection of short stories that depict life in early Australia during its days of being a colony for transported convicts. Excerpt: "Johnny Crook, after examining the rail very minutely, pointed to some stains and exclaimed, "white man's blood!" Then, leaping over the fence, he examined the brushwood and the ground adjacent. Ere long he started off, beckoning Mr. Cox and his attendants to follow. For more than three--quarters of a mile, over forest land, the savage tracked the footsteps of a man, and something trailed along the earth (fortunately, so far as the ends of justice were concerned, no rain had fallen during the period alluded to by old David, namely, fifteen months. One heavy shower would have obliterated all these tracks, most probably, and, curious enough, that very night there was a frightful downfall--such a downfall as had not been known for many a long year) until they came to a pond, or water-hole, upon the surface of which was a bluish scum."


A Commonwealth of Thieves

A Commonwealth of Thieves

Author: Thomas Keneally

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2007-12-04

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 140007956X

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In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair, Keneally gives us an inside view of this unprecedented experiment from the perspective of the new colony’s governor, Arthur Phillips. Using personal journals and documents, Keneally re-creates the hellish overseas voyage and the challenges Phillips faced upon arrival: unruly convicts, disgruntled officers, bewildered and hostile natives, food shortages, and disease. He also offers captivating portrayals of Aborigines and of convict settlers who were determined to begin their lives anew. A Commonwealth of Thieves immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up the thrills and hardships of those first four improbable years.