The First Settlement: The Convict Village That Founded Australia 1788-90
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A landmark work in Australian colonial history, The First Settlement chronicles the extraordinary story of the convict village that gave birth to a nation, bringing to life the turbulent years of 1788 to 1790 at Sydney Cove. Jonathan King draws on firsthand accounts, journals, and official records to reconstruct the hardships, triumphs, and daily realities faced by convicts, marines, and administrators in Britain's bold and precarious experiment at the edge of the known world. With vivid detail and authoritative narrative, the book presents the founding of Australia not as a distant abstraction but as a profoundly human story of survival, suffering, and resilience. King argues that it was the convicts themselves — the forgotten and the condemned — who were the true architects of a new society, shaping the cultural and social foundations of modern Australia.
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A landmark work in Australian colonial history, The First Settlement chronicles the extraordinary story of the convict village that gave birth to a nation, bringing to life the turbulent years of 1788 to 1790 at Sydney Cove. Jonathan King draws on firsthand accounts, journals, and official records to reconstruct the hardships, triumphs, and daily realities faced by convicts, marines, and administrators in Britain's bold and precarious experiment at the edge of the known world. With vivid detail and authoritative narrative, the book presents the founding of Australia not as a distant abstraction but as a profoundly human story of survival, suffering, and resilience. King argues that it was the convicts themselves — the forgotten and the condemned — who were the true architects of a new society, shaping the cultural and social foundations of modern Australia.
