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John Batman: An Inside Story of the Birth of Melbourne

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John Batman
An Inside Story of the Birth of Melbourne

A Summary of the Story

This book tells the story of how Melbourne was birthed. It begins with Captain Cook’s discovery of Australia and the colonisation that followed at Botany Bay. The quest began to find a suitable location for another settlement in the south of the continent. Although Port Phillip Bay was discovered, its potential was not immediately realised. The penal settlement established at Sorrento by David Collins in 1803 was a...