Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

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In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back in to the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal. This 1993 Chatto & Windus Hardback is in good condition. DJ. Spine faded and cover top left. ISBN: 9780091827823 SKU: 1577094 This image is of the actual book. Show more