A Partial Account of Watkin Tench’s Journeys to the Hawkesbury-Nepean

In this episode Jed surprises Alistair with a dramatic reading of several passages  from Watkin Tench’s 1793 publication ’A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson’. The stories we explore relate to some of the first journeys the colonisers made to Dyarubbin, the one river that they had mistakenly identified as both the Hawkesbury and the Nepean.

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A fortnightly history podcast about the people, places, and events that have shaped the city of Sydney and its surrounds.