Nanberry : black brother white / Jackie French
- Bib ID:
- 5020079
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- French, Jackie
- Description:
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- Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 2011
- 309 p. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780732290221
- Summary:
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The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself uncomfortably between two worlds, it is a new perspective on Australia's earliest days of white settlement.
The year is 1789, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself uncomfortably between two worlds, it is a new perspective on Australia's earliest days of white settlement.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307)
- For young adults.
- Awards:
- Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book: Younger Readers, 2012
- Subject:
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- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction
- Cadigal (Australian people) -- Juvenile fiction
- Interracial adoption -- Juvenile fiction
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Fiction
- Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Sydney Cove (N.S.W.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Warrane / Sydney Cove (NSW SI56-05)
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2011
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