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In Tasmania

In Tasmania

Nicholas Shakespeare

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2005
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Historia
ISBN:
9780099466086
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In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland a village full of Chatwins and inevitably a family of Shakespeares. But what makes this more than a personal quest is Shakespeare’s discovery that despite the nineteen century purges the Tasmanian Aborigines were not as previously believed entirely wiped out.

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