Paperback. Between 1787 and 1850, over 160,000 convicts were sent from Britain to penal colonies in Australia. First Fleet tells the story of the first eleven ships that sailed from Portsmouth on a 15,000 mile voyage to establish the first British penal settlement at Sydney Cove. Drawing on the surviving journals from some of those on board the prison convoy, these poems inhabit the imaginary voices of convicts, crew, marines, and Aboriginal people to give intimate voice - lyrical, poignant and unsentimental - to the poverty they left behind and the terrible "starvation years" they faced when they reached Australia. A book of poems about the first eleven ships that sailed from Portsmouth in 1787 to establish the first British penal settlement in Australia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: First Fleet (Paperback)
Publisher: Smokestack Books, Middlesborough
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0993454720
ISBN 13: 9780993454721
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Between 1787 and 1850, over 160,000 convicts were sent from Britain to penal colonies in Australia. First Fleet tells the story of the first eleven ships that sailed from Portsmouth on a 15,000 mile voyage to establish the first British penal settlement at Sydney Cove. Drawing on the surviving journals from some of those on board the prison convoy, these poems inhabit the imaginary voices of convicts, crew, marines, and Aboriginal people to give intimate voice - lyrical, poignant and unsentimental - to the poverty they left behind and the terrible ""starvation years"" they faced when they reached Australia.

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