Arthur Phillip 1738-1814: His Voyaging
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the helm of one of history's most audacious maritime undertakings, Arthur Phillip — naval officer, visionary administrator, and reluctant empire-builder — charted a course that would permanently alter the fate of an entire continent. Arthur Phillip 1738–1814: His Voyaging chronicles the life and seafaring career of the man who commanded the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1788, founding the British penal colony that would become the nation of Australia, tracing his remarkable journey from his birth in London through decades of naval service across Europe, South America, and the Pacific. Alan Frost, one of Australia's most respected historians of the colonial period, presents a meticulously researched and richly detailed biography that situates Phillip within the grand currents of eighteenth-century imperial ambition, naval strategy, and Enlightenment thought. Frost's prose is precise yet evocative, drawing on primary sources to reconstruct a life that was as complex and contradictory as the colonial enterprise itself — leaving the reader to wonder whether Phillip was the architect of a new civilisation, or simply a disciplined servant of an insatiable empire.
Author: Alan Frost
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the helm of one of history's most audacious maritime undertakings, Arthur Phillip — naval officer, visionary administrator, and reluctant empire-builder — charted a course that would permanently alter the fate of an entire continent. Arthur Phillip 1738–1814: His Voyaging chronicles the life and seafaring career of the man who commanded the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1788, founding the British penal colony that would become the nation of Australia, tracing his remarkable journey from his birth in London through decades of naval service across Europe, South America, and the Pacific. Alan Frost, one of Australia's most respected historians of the colonial period, presents a meticulously researched and richly detailed biography that situates Phillip within the grand currents of eighteenth-century imperial ambition, naval strategy, and Enlightenment thought. Frost's prose is precise yet evocative, drawing on primary sources to reconstruct a life that was as complex and contradictory as the colonial enterprise itself — leaving the reader to wonder whether Phillip was the architect of a new civilisation, or simply a disciplined servant of an insatiable empire.