A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

by Watkin Tench

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.

Genres: History, Australia

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1793

About the author

Lieutenant-General Watkin Tench was a British Marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, "Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay" and "Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson" provide a fascinating and entertaining account of the arrival and first four years of the colony. Little is known of Tench apart from what he writes in his three books and his service record.

Reviews

[Laura]

Another outstanding narrative on Australia's founding as a penal colony.

[Brendan Hough]

Eye read 2024 (technically i guess i read this twice, once while narrating it and then again while editing the audiobook)
7/10 about the first uk settlement in australia within Sydney area.
Not a subject i’m interested in for entertainment value, so i made it a project to get through it. My audiobook recording of it is at the below address. Just don’t expect grade A performance i was even rejected by libravox for not having a loud enough voice for volunteer recordings ;)
https://youtu.be/yT6T4ENtK0M?si=sP21J...
I found out a lot about the topic as i wanted to have pictures that went along with the narrative.

[Steve Ledger]

A tentative begining

.... "it be recollected how large a body of these people are now congregated in the settlement of Port Jackson and at Norfolk Island, it will, I think, not only excite surprise but afford satisfaction, to learn, that in a period of four years few crimes of a deep dye or of a hardened nature have been perpetrated."
Enlightened leadership by Governor Arthur Phillip.
G'donnya Watrs.

[Ralphy]

Fascinating and sometimes confronting
Recommend you read it while in looking over Sydney Harbour
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