Cover of Nanberry

Book 2011

Nanberry

34 readers

Publisher
Angus & Robertson
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Social conditions
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Aboriginal Australian Children
  • Interracial adoption
  • Cadigal (Australian people)

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.