botani bay (1 Ergebnisse)

Carton. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. 19pp. Within a protective cardboard. A very rare early satire on French politics and English colonization (Ferguson). Likening those who fled Revolutionary France to the English convicts transported to Australia, the author petitions them to join the future king of France in the newly established penal colony at Botany Bay: The Comte continues, explaining that in the Antipodes the laws are very different and virtue and vice are often upended. This pamphlet appeared in the very first years of the English colonization of Australia, at a time when France had its own interests in the region, and its own problems at home. La Perouse, commanding the l'Astrolabe and La Boussole, arrived at Botany Bay on 24 January, 1788, just as Arthur Phillip was moving the English settlement to Port Jackson. They spent six weeks in Australia before moving on. A second edition was published in 1799. Ferguson, 78a.