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The sooterkin
- Title
- The sooterkin / Tom Gilling.
- Author
- Gilling, Tom.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | PR9619.3.G538 S66 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 212 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "On a squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Tasmania, a thing more seal than human. As news of the creature spreads through the colony, incredulous doctors come to peer under Sarah's skirts. The Reverend Mr Kidney suspects a virgin birth. Mr Sculley, anatomist and man of science, hails it as the antipodean answer to the elusive Dutch sooterkin.".
- "The pup is a joy to its parents and a welcome companion to their nine-year-old son Ned, who discovers surprising - and profitable - talents in his whiskery sibling. But when a well-dressed stranger arrives, bearing a modest proposal for the infant's future, no one foresees the trouble that lies ahead."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Australia > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- ISBN
- 0670891525
- LCCN
- 00036668
- OCLC
- 43798377
- ocm43798377
- SCSB-3882534
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries