by NRB | 10 Oct 2023 | Non-fiction |
Kate Fullagar puts the lives of Wangal man Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip into a larger context beyond the brief years they spent together. What we regard as the modern history of Australia commenced with Britain establishing a colony in New South Wales in...
by NRB | 4 Apr 2019 | Non-fiction |
This biography recounts how Esther went from being convicted in London’s Old Bailey and transported to Botany Bay with the First Fleet, to becoming First Lady of the colony. Do not be misled, as I was, by the cover of this book, which shows a young...
by NRB | 31 Jan 2019 | Non-fiction |
The stories here of the European settlers’ progress from trespassers to squatters to established pastoralists are absorbing, fascinating and well-told. The Squatters tells the stories of the newcomers who, from the time of the First Fleet’s arrival in Australia,...
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