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  • Author: Flanagan, Richard
    Contributor: BC Libraries Cooperative; National Network for Equitable Library Service; Bower, Humphrey
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
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    2013
    Summary:

    Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens takes an interest in the story, which has a profound affect on this own life.

    Genre:
    Historical fiction
    Subject(s): Aboriginal Tasmanians | Dickens, Charles | Fiction | Franklin, Jane Griffin | Franklin, John
    Original Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c.2008, Victoria Park, Association for the Blind of Western Australia
    Language(s): English