Australia Shopping World Online. Unsere Shops: 50672 KÖLN / Cologne, Limburger Strasse 14 + 10179 BERLIN-Mitte, Neue Grünstrasse 9 + GERMANY
In 1788, 11 tiny ships set sail from England on an eight-month-long voyage over the roughest of seas, carrying 1,500 people, food for two years, and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts in a land completely beyond their experience and imagination.
In Portsmouth, the fleet's preparation was characterized by disease, promiscuity, and death. The journey itself was one of unbearable hardship, but also of extraordinary resilience. Upon their arrival, however, the colonists faced their biggest challenges of all: conflict, starvation, and despair.
Combining the skill of a vigilant journalist with the magic of a master novelist, David Hill in this entrancing history brings the sights, sounds, sufferings, and joys of the “First Fleeters” back to life. Journals, letters, reports, and pleas to England are all interwoven here with the author's own insight, and together they convey the innermost horrors and joys of the very first European Australians. The result is a narrative history that is surprising, compelling, and unforgettable.
A national bestseller from the bestselling author of "The Forgotten Children".