The First Fleet

by Alan Boardman and Roland Harvey

The Five Mile Press, 1983, colour illustrations throughout, hardcover, dustjaacket, ISBN 0867880082

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, corners bumped, faint marks to a couple of pages, dustjacket has small tears, chips and creasing (see photographs)

'With the arrival of the First Fleet under the command of Governor Arthur Phillip the first British settlement of Australia was begun on January 26th, 1788.
The fleet of eleven ships carried over 750 convicts and 550 sailors, marines and civilians whose task it was to establish a new colony.
This book traces the background to the system of transportation, the formation of the First Fleet, the long voyage to Australia and some of the difficulties encountered by the new settlers in a strange and inhospitable land.'