Our Fleeting Past

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Title: Sailing on the first fleet: journey into the unknown

Author: Angela Crocombe

Publisher: Port Melbourne, Vic. : Echidna Books, 2005

Series: Australia changing times

This book is about the First Fleet - under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip - that sailed to Australia carrying convicts in 1787. What was life like on board these eleven ships? What provisions did they take? What did they plan to do when they arrived? Why did they leave England in the first place? All this and more is answered in Sailing on the First Fleet.

Call #: 994 686

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