Arthur Phillip

This beautifully illustrated book recounts the life of the founding governor of New South Wales: a life of extensive travel and exploration. It also provides a wealth of detail about the times and the society in which he lived. Apart from his achievements in New South Wales, Phillip enjoyed a successful naval career, voyaging further than any but a handful of his contemporaries - to the Arctic, about the coasts of Europe, to the West Indies, to Brazil, to the Cape of Good Hope, to India, and Australia. Alan Frost has created this biography from a wide selection of letters, journals, and geographical works by Phillip's contemporaries, as well as from naval charts and other pictorial records. Readership: scholars and historians of colonial and naval history.