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Strandloper

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A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years.

In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

'A remarkable feat of literary imagination' Sunday Times

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1996

ISBN 13: 9781860461613

Strandloper

0/5 ( ratings)

A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years.

In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

'A remarkable feat of literary imagination' Sunday Times

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1996

ISBN 13: 9781860461613

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