Cover art for Arthur Phillip
Published
Hardie Grant, August 2013
ISBN
9781742705088
Format
Hardcover, 304 pages

Arthur Phillip Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by

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Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First

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