About the book
Rob Mundle tells the story of the First Fleet as a feat of seamanship: eleven small ships carrying around fourteen hundred people, convicts, marines and crew, on a 17,000-mile passage from Portsmouth by way of Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay, and then on to Port Jackson, in 252 days in 1787 and 1788, under Arthur Phillip's command.
Mundle is a yachting journalist and sailor who has written biographies of Bligh, Flinders and Cook, and he reads the voyage with a sailor's eye for the ships, the weather and the handling.
Notes
To come.