1788: The People Of The First Fleet
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving expanse of the world's oceans to plant the seeds of a new civilisation on the shores of Australia. 1788: The People of the First Fleet chronicles the remarkable human stories behind this extraordinary colonial undertaking, presenting intimate portraits of the men, women, and children who endured the arduous voyage and arrived at Botany Bay to become the founding population of modern Australia. Don Chapman draws on meticulous historical research to illuminate the individual lives that so often disappear beneath the grand sweep of national history, rescuing these forgotten figures from anonymity and restoring their voices to the record. Written with both scholarly rigour and a warm narrative sensibility, the work argues powerfully that history is ultimately a human story — one of courage, desperation, ambition, and survival. For anyone captivated by the origins of a nation and the indomitable spirit of those who shaped it, this account leaves one wondering: what truly drove these souls to the edge of the known world?
Author: Don Chapman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Cassell Australia
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving expanse of the world's oceans to plant the seeds of a new civilisation on the shores of Australia. 1788: The People of the First Fleet chronicles the remarkable human stories behind this extraordinary colonial undertaking, presenting intimate portraits of the men, women, and children who endured the arduous voyage and arrived at Botany Bay to become the founding population of modern Australia. Don Chapman draws on meticulous historical research to illuminate the individual lives that so often disappear beneath the grand sweep of national history, rescuing these forgotten figures from anonymity and restoring their voices to the record. Written with both scholarly rigour and a warm narrative sensibility, the work argues powerfully that history is ultimately a human story — one of courage, desperation, ambition, and survival. For anyone captivated by the origins of a nation and the indomitable spirit of those who shaped it, this account leaves one wondering: what truly drove these souls to the edge of the known world?