Transported! Contributor(s): Adams, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1519366078 ISBN-13: 9781519366078 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $24.07 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2016 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Expeditions & Discoveries |
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 490 pages |
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Publisher Description: In 1787 a state-sponsored convoy of 11 ships embarked on an interminable voyage to where no Europeans had ever settled before - the east-coast of Australia. The flotilla carried a human cargo of 750 convicts banished from Georgian England's overflowing prisons. In Transported Brian Adams vividly re-creates the daily dramas of this hazardous mission, based on first-hand accounts in surviving journals, diaries and letters. These First Fleet colonists were destined to leave their pioneering footprint on what would become a great modern nation - Australia. |