Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
By Watkin Tench · Running time 06:34:20 · Early Modern
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia, landing in January 1788. He first wrote an account of his experiences with the First Fleet in a book called "A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay". Later he published this book, "A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson", where he takes up from where he left off in the previous account; July 1788 up until he left the colony in December 1791. This is one of the earliest published accounts of this pivotal period in Australian history. Tench displays all the assumptions and worl
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-BayWatkin Tench · 2:20:06
- Short History of the United StatesEdward Channing · 8:21:58
- Chronicles of Canada Volume 12 - The Father of British Canada; A Chronicle of CarletonWilliam Wood · 4:41:14
- Devotions upon Emergent OccasionsJohn Donne · 5:59:21
- Popular History of Ireland, Book 11Thomas D'Arcy McGee · 5:19:04
- Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb MartinJoseph Plumb Martin · 8:01:52
- Religio Medici and HydriotaphiaThomas Browne · 5:24:54
- Journey of CoronadoPedro de Castañeda · 7:08:47