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Sydney's first four years : being a reprint of A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay and A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson / by Captain Watkin Tench ; with an introduction and annotations by L.F. Fitzhardinge.
Record no.:
237
Author:
Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833;
Fitzhardinge, L. F.;
Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833. Complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson.;
Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833. Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay.;
Royal Historical Society (Great Britain);
Publisher:
Sydney :: Angus and Robertson, in association with the Royal Australian Historical Society,
Year:
1961.
Description:
xxv, 364 p. : folded map, fascims. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet, First.;
Penal colonies - Great Britain.;
Voyages and travels.;
Botany Bay (N.S.W.);
Penal colonies, British.;
Penal colonies - New South Wales.;
Settlement and contacts - Explorers.;
Race relations.;
Technology.;
First Fleet, 1787-1788.;
Penal colonies - Australia - New South Wales.;
Discoveries in geography.;
Penal colonies.;
Penal colonies - Australia.;
New South Wales - Social conditions - 18th century.;
Australia - History - 1788-1851.;
New South Wales - History.;
Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - History.;
New South Wales - History - 1788-1791.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration.;
New South Wales - Description and travel Early works to 1800.;
New South Wales - History - 1788-1851 - Sources.;
New South Wales - Description and travel - To 1850 - Early works to 1800.;
New South Wales - History - 1788-1851.;
Port Jackson (N.S.W.) - History.;
Sydney (N.S.W.) - History - 1788-1851.;
New South Wales - Discovery and exploration.;
Port Jackson (N.S.W.);
Notes:
First published as: A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay. London : Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-house, Piccadilly, 1788; and A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales. London : Sold by G. Nicol ... and J. Sewell, 1793. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 337-354.
Being a reprint of a narrative of the expedition to botany
Bay and a complete account of the settlement at port jackson.
Type:
Monograph
Abstract:
Includes index.

Account of making of canoes, artifacts, adornments, early conflict, dancing, cannibalism, finger mutilation, use of fire against whites, robbery, punitive expeditions, mental and physical characteristics, rock carvings, smallpox
and other diseases; treatment of women; Relations with settlers.
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