1788: Comprising A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay And A Complete Account Of The Settlement At Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

1788: Comprising A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay And A Complete Account Of The Settlement At Port Jackson

Watkin Tench

320 pages first pub 1793 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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Watkin Tench sailed to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. In his late twenties, a captain of the marines, he was insatiably curious about the new British colony of Australia. In his four years in the country, he wrote two books about the earl...

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