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Author King, Jonathan, 1942-

Title The first settlement : the convict village that founded Australia 1788-90 / Jonathan King
Published South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1984

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  994.4102 Kin  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 186 pages, 12 pages of color plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm
Contents List of convicts who came to Australia with the second fleet on lining papers
Summary Diary of events including initial contacts and violent conflict at Port Jackson; observation by various writers of Aboriginal behaviour, appearance, material culture, food gathering; smallpox epidemic; mentions Arabanoo, Nanbarry, Colbee, Bennelong, Bungaree; illustration of Long Jack, Mimora, Wambella, Broken Bay Jemmy
Notes Includes index
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Prisoners -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Registers.
Penal colonies, British -- History
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579
New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1788-1851
Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1788-1851
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
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ISBN 0333380800