Description |
367 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Series |
Famous Australian lives |
Summary |
Account of first settlement in Australia at Sydney Cove, lead by Governor Phillip; discusses background to, and reasons for, settlement; government instructions, including instructions regarding Indigenous Australians, organisation, personnel etc for voyage and settlement; voyage to Sydney Cove; settlement and contact; Governor's, officers', solders', convicts' and settlers' varying attitudes to, and relationships with, Indigenous Australians; Governor's treatment of Indigenous Australians and attempts to maintain peaceful relations with them; descriptions of Indigenous Australians; deteriorating relationships, violence and eventual punitive expedition; capture of Arabanoo, and later Baneelon and Colbee, in attempt to learn about Indigenous people; captives' lives after captured; smallpox and famine among Aboriginals |
Notes |
First published: London : George C. Harrap, 1938 |
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Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 347-348 |
Subject |
Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.
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Governors -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
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SUBJECT |
New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Exiles
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New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1788-1814
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New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1788-1851
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Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1788-1814
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Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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ISBN |
0207134553 (paperback) |
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