If you have a convict sent with the first fleet you may be interested in reading this account of Watkin Tench, free from Google Books to read or download on to your Kindle
Edna
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tench/watkin/index.html
a fascinating and entertaining account of the arrival and first four years of the colony.
Tench was also a prisoner of the French in Brittany in 1794-95, and his Letters from revolutionary France provide a first-hand account of the French Revolution.
Works
Letters from revolutionary France
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay [1788]
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson [1793]
Edna
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tench/watkin/index.html
a fascinating and entertaining account of the arrival and first four years of the colony.
Tench was also a prisoner of the French in Brittany in 1794-95, and his Letters from revolutionary France provide a first-hand account of the French Revolution.
Works
Letters from revolutionary France
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay [1788]
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson [1793]
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