Collection: Reference

The official account of the first settlement of Australia. Includes list of convicts sent to N.S.W. in 1787.

Bradley, as first lieutenant of HMS Sirius, recorded in his journal accounts of explorations and surveys with the First Fleet to the colony and also to the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia and England.

Leaving Portsmouth for New South Wales in 1798 it was a voyage that cost nearly 100 lives. A detailed account of the voyage from the diary of William Noah, a convict, and the fortunes of some of his shipmate survivors whose lives were linked with theirs. The book includes a list of the officers a...