Wanting / Richard Flanagan.
By: Flanagan, Richard.
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BookPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2008Edition: 1st American ed.Description: 256 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780802119001 (trade); 080211900X.Subject(s): Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Fiction | Franklin, John Sir, 1786-1847 -- Fiction | Franklin, Jane Lady, 1792-1875 -- Fiction | Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Fiction | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Fiction | Franklin, John Sir, 1786-1847 -- Fiction | Franklin, Jane Lady, 1792-1875 -- Fiction | Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Fiction | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823/.92 | [Fic] Summary: When Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin takes governance of a penal colony, his wife, Lady Jane, adopts the charming Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, for a social experiment; years later, when Franklin disappears in the Arctic, cases of cannibalism are reported, horrifying English society.
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When Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin takes governance of a penal colony, his wife, Lady Jane, adopts the charming Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, for a social experiment; years later, when Franklin disappears in the Arctic, cases of cannibalism are reported, horrifying English society.
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