The First Fleet: The Real Story by Alan Frost

The First Fleet: The Real Story

Alan Frost

272 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

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In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Robert Hughes condemned the o...

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