Bound for Botany Bay British Convict Voyages to Australia By Alan Brooke, David Brandon.

Bound for Botany Bay British Convict Voyages to Australia By Alan Brooke, David Brandon.

Publisher: The National Archives , 2005, First Edition.

Very good hardback with jacket, minor bumping and marks to boards, no inscriptions, pages excellent. Jacket has a little edge-wear. 272 pages, illustrated.

This is the story of an extraordinary period in British criminal history, told through the surviving records held by the UK National Archives. For over two hundred years, tens of thousands of convicts were sentenced to be 'banished beyond the seas'. Although some went to America and the West Indies, the vast majority were sent to Australia: between 1787 and 1868, 162,000 souls packed into 806 ships were transported to the colony. This book follows their story from courtroom to convict ship to colonial life. Drawing throughout on largely unused sources such as the original journals which recorded life at sea in fascinating detail, the authors build up a fresh and vivid portrait of particular personalities and typical voyages from the remarkable 'convict years'. Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Beginning of Transportation 2. The First Three Fleets 3. The Trauma of Exile 4. Who were the Convicts 5. 'Little depraved felons' - Child Convicts 6. Keeping Order 7. The Surgeon's Tale 8. New Lives for Old Conclusion - Towards the End of Transportation

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