Wanting by Richard Flanagan

272 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

fiction historical literary reflective slow-paced
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Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemenâe(tm)s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and d...

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