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The founders of Australia : a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet

by Mollie Gillen, Yvonne Browning, Michael Flynn

A comprehensive biographical reference documenting the 1,442 individuals who sailed with or were born on the First Fleet in 1787. It traces the origins, trials, and subsequent lives of convicts, officers, and sailors throughout the early Australian colonies and beyond.

Accession 24707 ISBN 0908120699 Publisher Library of Australian History
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