The Lieutenant
By Unknown Author.
Description
The author of the Man Booker Prize finalist The Secret River and the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville returns to colonial Australia with this lyrical, vividly drawn novel based on the life of a British astronomer. A lieutenant in the First Fleet, accompanying a shipment of condemned prisoners to a new penal colony, Daniel Rooke lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales in 1788, where he sets up an observatory to watch for a predicted comet. But it is befriending an Aboriginal girl, Tagaran, and learning her language that changes the course of Rooke�...
ISBN(s)
1847673473, 9781847673473
