The lieutenant / Kate Grenville.
Series: Thornhill family ; bk.2Publisher: Melbourne : Text, 2008Description: 307 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781921351785 (hardback)
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts
- School text
- Soldiers -- Fiction
- Australian stories
- Aborigines, Australian -- New South Wales -- History -- Fiction
- Bookclub collection
- Australian fiction
- Astronomers -- Australia -- Fiction
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- Historical fiction, Australian
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Historical fiction
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- Historical fiction
- Australian literature
- Iwi taketake
- Historical fiction -- Australia
- Australian literature
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Australia -- Race relations -- Fiction
- New South Wales -- History -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- Botany Bay (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Australia
- Pacific Ocean -- Botany Bay
- Australia -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Indigenous focus. This resource may contain the names, voices and faces of people who are now deceased which may cause distress to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander viewers or readers. Please take care when distributing this material.
- History.
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- Australian fiction
- Families
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction.
- Indigenous focus. This resource may contain the names, voices and faces of people who are now deceased which may cause distress to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander viewers or readers. Please take care when distributing this material
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Historical fiction
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 823.4 GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90719 |
In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other side of the world. After the fleet arrives in Port Jackson, Rooke sets up camp on a rocky and isolated point, and starts his work of astronomy and navigation. It's not too long before some of the Aboriginal people who live around the harbour pay him a visit. One of them, a girl named Tarunga, starts to teach him her own language. But her lessons and their friendship are interrupted when Rooke is given an order that will change his life forever. Inspired by the 1790 notebooks of William Dawes in which he recorded his conversations with a young Gadigal woman, The Lieutenant is a story about a man discovering his true self in extraordinary circumstances.
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