A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

Name: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
Author: Watkin Tench

by Watkin Tench

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Col Choat and Stuart Kidd

Release date

2006-05-08

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Public domain in the USA.

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Voyages and travels Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833 -- Diaries Explorers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Diaries Botany Bay region (Australia) -- Description and travel New South Wales -- Description and travel Australia -- Discovery and exploration

About the author

Watkin Tench

d. 1833

Best known for his vivid firsthand books about the First Fleet, this British marine officer left one of the clearest early written records of colonial Australia. His writing is valued for its sharp observation, humor, and unusually humane interest in the people and places around him.

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