The voyage of the First Fleet 1787-1788, taken from contemporary accounts
By: by Victor Crittenden
Series: First fleet books -- no. 1; First Fleet books -- no. 1.
Publisher: Mulini Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9780949910059; 9780949910042
Subjects: Sources; History; First Fleet, 1787-1788; Convict ships; Voyages and travels; Voyages from Great Britain to New South Wales by convict ships, 1787-1788; Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet, First; Great Britain
Description: Official reasons for founding a British settlement in Australia, the officers, crew and convicts chosen, the voyage, arrival at Botany Bay, contact with aborigines.
Notes: Limited ed. of 100 signed and numbered copies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-99) and index.
Table of contents: title: The plan and the people; title: The Fleet sets out; title: Santa Cruz on the Isle of Teneriffe; title: Sailing the Central Atlantic; title: Rio de Janeiro; title: Across the South Atlantic; title: Capetown; title: Across the Indian Ocean; title: Botany Bay.