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Wanting

Wanting
 
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Van Diemen's Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civilisation - one that will determine whether science and reason can be imposed in place of savagery and desire.

Years pass. Sir John Franklin disappears on an Arctic expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified as reports of cannibalism filter back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin's story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own soul.

Published: 2023
Format: softcover
Pages: 252
Fiction
SKU SKU18913
Quantity in stock 1 item(s) available
Weight 0.45 kg
Author Richard Flanagan
ISBN 9780143790792
 
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