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Australian Documents Library, Sydney, 1979. 25.0 x 18.5cms, 196pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper (minor stains) Smyth assumed the duties of surgeon on the Lady Penrhym which carried about 100 women convicts in the First Fleet to Botany Bay / Sydney. He described the Aborigines' customs, the Tahitians & Chinese he met; Rio de Janiero & Cape Town. This is his previously unpublished diary.
The Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth: Surgeon, Lady Penrhyn 1787-1789. by Smyth, Arthur Bowes. Fidlon, Paul G.; Ryan, R.J. (editors) - 1979
by Smyth, Arthur Bowes. Fidlon, Paul G.; Ryan, R.J. (editors)
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Sydney: Australian Documents Library, 1979. xix, 196pp, index, appendices, bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. Near new. The first-fleeter Lady Penrhyn carried more than 100 female convicts from England to Sydney. All except one survived the 8 month journey. The high survival rate was due to ship's surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth whose journal is published here for the first time almost 200 years after it was written.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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- ISBN 10 0908219008
- ISBN 13 9780908219001
- Publisher Australian Documents Library
- Place of Publication Sydney
- Date Published 1979
- Keywords Australia Colonial New South Wales NSW Sydney Maritime Voyage Journal Lady Penrhyn Arthur Bowes Smyth First Fleet
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Australian Documents Library, Sydney, 1979. 25.0 x 18.5cms, 196pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper Smyth assumed the duties of surgeon on the Lady Penrhym which carried about 100 women convicts in the First Fleet to Botany Bay / Sydney. He described the Aborigines' customs, the Tahitians & Chinese he met; Rio de Janiero & Cape Town. This is his previously unpublished diary.
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