First Fleet
Michael Crowley
ISBN 10: 0993454720 ISBN 13: 9780993454721
Published by Smokestack Books, GB, 2016
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Between 1787 and 1850 over 160,000 convicts were sent from Britain to penal colonies in Australia. First Fleet tells the story of the first eleven ships that sailed from Portsmouth on a 15,000 mile voyage to establish the first British penal settlement at Sydney Cove. Drawing on the surviving journals of some of the men and women on board the prison convoy, these poems inhabits the imaginary voices of convicts, crew, marines and Aboriginal people to give intimate voice – lyrical, poignant and unsentimental – to the poverty they left behind and the terrible ‘starvation years’ they faced when they reached Australia. This is a book about history and landscape, imprisonment and environment.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: First Fleet
Publisher: Smokestack Books, GB
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New