Convicts of the first fleet : sent to a new land
McPhee, Margaret2015
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An Australian history series, written with the new Australian History Curriculum in mind. Explores how New South Wales was established as a penal colony to ease overcrowing in British prisons around 1787 thus convicts were shipped to Australia.
Main title:
Convicts of the first fleet : sent to a new land / by Margaret McPhee
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney Australian Geographic Education 2015
Collation:
32 pages colour illustrations maps
Series title:
Audience:
Upper primarySecondary
Contents:
Age of upheaval: England and the Industrial Revolution, forced into cities, poverty and despair, homelessness -- Desperate times: Transporting convicts, harsh punishment, stinking hulks, alternatives, penal colony -- Into exile: Botany Bay chosen, Captain Arthur Phillip -- Bound for Botany Bay: First Fleet, preparations, loading convicts, the ships, life on board, harsh conditions, below decks, the voyage, ports of call -- In a strange land: Botany Bay, unfamiliar places, Going ashore, provisions and livestock, paperwork, indigenous relations, conflict, runaways -- Life as a convict: Who they were, lack of skills, working, clearing, punishments, rations, clothing -- Struggling settlement: Difficult environment, starting from scratch, starvation, waiting for supplies, Norfolk Island -- Building a new world: Lives transformed, land grants, growing grain, business, child labour, rewards, great escape.
ISBN:
9781742456683 (hardback)
Dewey class:
994.02 CON
Local class:
994.02
Language:
English
Subject:
First Fleet, 1787-1788ConvictsBritish penal coloniesConvicts -- HistoryBritish penal colonies -- Australia -- HistoryConvicts -- New South Wales -- TreatmentBritish penal colonies -- New South Wales -- HistoryConvicts -- Australia -- HistoryConvicts -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- HistoryConvicts -- Australia -- TreatmentLand settlement -- Australia -- History -- 1788-1851Convicts -- Australia -- Social conditions -- HistoryBritish penal colonies -- Sydney (N.S.W.)Australia -- History -- 1788-1851Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Pictorial works
BRN:
63045
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Penrith | Nonfiction | 994.02 CON | Available |
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 994.02 CON | Available |
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 994.02 CON | hbk.Available |
| St Clair | Nonfiction | 994.02 CON | hbk.Available |