George Barrington's voyage to Botany Bay : retelling a convict's travel narrative of the 1790s / edited by Suzanne Rickard
- Bib ID:
- 935669
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barrington, George, 1755-1804
- Uniform Title:
- Voyage to Botany Bay
- Description:
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- London : Leicester University Press, 2001
- xxiv, 181 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0718501853 (hardback)
- 0718501861 (paperback)
- Series:
- Literature of travel, exploration and empire.
- Summary:
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This fully annotated edition identifies the work's original textual sources and illuminates its complex publishing history. It also focuses on contemporary debates concerning penal settlement, punishment, racial encounters and the manipulation of knowledge. George Barrington's surprising credentials as author allowed an exotic interpretation of events and inflamed European curiousity about the colony's settlement. Shrewd publishers exploited the famous name and presented a seamless and colourful assemblage cut from official journals, revealing the extent of close contact with aboriginal peoples, the treatment of convicts and discovery of unusual plants and animals.
Bearing all the hallmarks of authenticity, Barrington's account gained a singular place in popular contemporary travel and exploration literature, providing the foundation for a long series of embellished and illustrated histories. Botany Bay's reputation for cruel deprivation often overshadowed tales of opportunity presented to the talented. Barrington's revival as a reformed convict helped transform his own image, while the narrative's insights into the rigours of transportation, the struggle for survival and daily life in the penal colony initiated a lively convict travel literature.
- Notes:
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- Barrington's work has become known as Voyage to Botany Bay.
- The version of Barrington's Voyage used in this work is entitled: An impartial and circumstantial narrative of the present state of Botany Bay, in New South Wales ... by George Barrington, now superintendant of the convicts at Paramata, published circa 1793 by S. & J. Bailey, London.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Barrington, George, 1755-1804 -- Journeys -- Australia -- Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
- Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- Early works to 1800
- Prisoners -- New South Wales -- Social life and customs
- Travel writing
- Body - Decoration
- Settlement and contacts
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous
- Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox
- Weapons
- Race relations
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Botany Bay (N.S.W.) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- New South Wales -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- Australia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Rickard, Suzanne, 1948-
- Also Titled:
- Title used in introduction Impartial and circumstantial narrative of the present state of Botany Bay, in New South Wales-- by George Barrington, now superintendant of the convicts at Paramata
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2001
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