Dispatched Downunder Tracing Resting Places First Fleet

Biography & Memoir History Australiana

Dispatched Downunder: Tracing Resting Places of the First Fleet by historian Ron Withington is a hardcover guide for anyone fascinated by Australia’s earliest European burials. The 2013 volume maps the graves of First Fleet convicts, marines and officers who helped found New South Wales.

Withington’s meticulous research turns graveyards into biographies, linking headstones to passenger lists, ship logs and colonial records. The result is an essential reference for genealogists, local-history buffs and collectors of Australian antiquarian books.

This copy from The Fellowship of First Fleeters is in very good to like-new shape: crisp pages, clean textblock, only light cover scuffs from gentle shelf time. It comes from a smoke-free home and is ready for immediate dispatch to your own library.

Add this authoritative title to your collection and let Withington lead you through the cemeteries that quietly chronicle Australia’s convict beginnings.