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1. Human Society and its Environment (HSIE)
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3. Incidents between Aboriginal people in NSW and the British colonisers 1770-1792
4. Suggested Reading

Suggested Reading

SUGGESTED READING

• This reading list is additional to the electronic sources linked above. All sources are printed books.
• Beaglehole, J C (ed), 1963, The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771, 2 volumes, Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
• Beaglehole, J C (ed), 1967, The Journal of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, 4 volumes and portfolio, Hakluyt Society at Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Bradley, W, 1966, A Voyage to New South Wales, Facsimile, Trustees of the Public Library of NSW and Ure Smith, Sydney. This was written in 1786–92.
• Bowes Smyth, A, 1979,  Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth: Surgeon, Lady Penrhyn 1787–1789, Australian Documents Library, Sydney.
• Cobley, J, 1963, Sydney Cove, 1788, Hodder and Stoughton, London (and succeeding volumes to 1800).
• Clark, R, 1981, The Journal and Letters of Lieutenant Ralph Clark, 1787–1792. Sydney: Library of Australian History, Sydney.
• Collins, D, 1975, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in The Strand, London. Originally published 1798–1802. Available free online through Project Gutenberg Australia at http://freeread.com.au/ebooks/e00010.html
  http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12565
• Irvine, N (ed), 1988, The Sirius Letters: The Complete Letters of Newton Fowell, The Fairfax Library, Sydney.
• Historical Records of Australia, Series 1, 1914–22, Library of the Commonwealth Parliament, Canberra.
• Historical Records of New South Wales, 7 volumes, 1892–1901, Government Printer, Sydney.
• Hunter, J, 1793,  An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, John Stockdale, London. This includes extracts from the journals of Arthur Phillip and Philip Gidley King.
• King, P G, 2006, A Sydney Vocabulary 1790, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. An extract from the journal of P G King dated April 1790 which was included in John Hunter’s An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, John Stockdale, London, 1793. 
• Kohen, J L, 2006, Daruganora: Darug Country – The place and the people, Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, Blacktown.
• McBride, I, 1989, Guests of the Governor: Aboriginal Residents of the First Government House, Friends of the First Government House Site, Sydney.
• National Library of Australia, Teachers’ notes: James Cook’s Endeavour Journal, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT. http://nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/%3E/Treasures/item/nla.ms-ms1-s256r
• Parkinson, S, 1784, A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship The Endeavour, London. Reprinted in 1984 by Caliban Books.
• Phillip, A, 1789, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island, Stockdale, London. Available free online through Project Gutenberg of Australia, http://freeread.com.au/ebooks/e00101.txt
• Project Gutenberg of Australia, a selection of transcribed original books about the first English settlement in Australia, free online, http://gutenberg.net.au/first-fleet.html
• Smith, B & Wheeler, A (eds), 1988, The Art of the First Fleet and Other Early Australian Drawings, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Smith, K V, 2001, Bennelong: The coming-in of the Eora, Sydney Cove 1788–1792, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville.
• Smith, K V, 2005, ‘Tupaia’s Sketchbook’, Article 10, in the Electronic British Library Journal http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/article10.html
• This contains an image made during Cook’s week in Botany Bay in 1770.
• Tench, W, 1793, A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, including an accurate description of the colony; of the natives; and of its natural productions, G Nicol and J Sewell, London. Various reprints.
• Troy, J, 1993, The Sydney Language, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• White, J, 1790, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, London. Reprinted in 1962 by Angus & Robertson, edited by A H Chisholm. Available free online through Project Gutenberg Australia (text at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301531.txt and downloadable images at http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#white)
• Wikipedia article on the First Fleet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet) contains useful information on the numbers of convicts etc.
• Willey, K, 1979, When the Sky Fell Down: The Destruction of the Tribes of the Sydney Region 1788–1850s, Collins, Sydney.
• Worgan, G B, 1978, Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon, Library Council of NSW, Sydney.