Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History

The contest between Arthur Phillip and Jean-Francois Laperouse to get to Botany Bay first and to claim rights to sovereignty of either Britain or France over the Australian continent. Margaret Cameron-Ash rewrites the history of the founding of modern Australia. It tells how the French had a jump...

In August 1833, the Amphitrite, a small convict ship bound for the colonies of Australia, was wrecked in a terrible storm on the coast of France. She carried 102 female prisoners, 12 of their children, along with the captain, the crew, a medical officer and his wife. Only three people survived.