Across great divides : true stories of life at Sydney Cove
Boyer, Susan E.2013
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This book examines the experiences of convicts, the military and Aborigines when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove. The stories bring to life the diverse experiences of people living in the precarious circumstance of Australia's first penal colony.
Main title:
Across great divides : true stories of life at Sydney Cove / by Susan E Boyer.
Author:
Imprint:
Glenbrook, N.S.W. : Birrong Books, 2013.
Collation:
313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Maps of Sydney Cove, etc. -- Ships of the First Fleet -- Introduction - setting the scene -- The end and the beginning -- First encounters -- A line in the sand -- Strange comings and goings -- Sydney Cove, 1788 -- Reflections -- Different yes - different sights -- Issues and challenges -- A night of revelry -- The governor's speech -- Strange appearances and disappearances -- Creatures, great and small -- A beating for a beating -- View from the ridge -- Beyond the boundary -- The Kable's story -- Into the wild blue yonder -- Into the unknown wilderness -- Friends and thieves -- Frustration and progress -- The rush-cutter incident -- Across the social divide -- Across the racial divide -- Rose Hill -- An opportunity not to be missed -- Kidnaps and adoptions -- Into the vast unknown, 1789 -- 'A most unpleasant service' -- Teachers and students -- Impatient for news -- Survival tactics -- Crucial decisions -- The escape -- Thoughts of freedom -- Letters and questions -- The Second Fleet, 1790 -- Mayhem at Manly, 1790 -- Making amends -- Pemulway -- Retaliation -- Conflict and bungles -- Growth and adjustment -- Life and death -- Forward planning -- New territory -- Great escapes -- Family matters -- Arrivals and departures -- Nanberry and Ballooderry -- Maurgoran's family -- More goodbyes -- A time of transition -- Pondering the known and the unknown -- Illustrations of relevant people -- Notes on sources.
ISBN:
9781877074424 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994.402
Language:
English
Subject:
Aboriginal Australians -- BiographyFirst Fleet, 1787-1788Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- 1788-1901Aboriginal Australians -- Sydney Region (N.S.W.) -- HistoryConvicts -- Australia -- BiographyConvicts -- New South Wales -- HistoryPenal colonies -- New South WalesAboriginal Australians -- First contact with EuropeansSydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1788-1851New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851Sydney Cove settlement (NSW) -- History
BRN:
55332
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Reference | 994.402 ACR | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |