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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition; First Printing. New unread First American Edition first printing (complete number line) in New dust jacket with price intact. 252 pages, unmarked ; DD0619 F FIC; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages. Seller Inventory # 47909
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. One of our most inventive and important international literary voices, Richard Flanagan now delivers Wanting, a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemens Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the islands governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization-one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklins story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life. Seller Inventory # DADAX080211900X
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # Abebooks583926
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 080211900X