The First Fleet adventure
McKenzie of the First Fleet
Marine officer McKenzie bound for Botany Bay with Watkin Tench — adventure and humour on the voyage that founded a colony. Second edition, with revised prose and improved formatting.
102 print pages · Kindle edition
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England behind us. An uncertain shore ahead. And McKenzie? Trouble never sailed far from that man. In Gordon McLeish’s McKenzie of the First Fleet, an invented marine joins the real Watkin Tench on a voyage filled with danger, friendship and dry humour. Step aboard a historical adventure where the record provides the bones—and imagination brings the story to life.
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