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The lieutenant
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- ISBN: 9781554687060 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1554687063 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Canada, 2010.
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, October 3, 2013). |
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| Subject: | Astronomers -- Australia -- Fiction Immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction Friendship -- Fiction Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
In 1788, Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sails into Sydney Cove with the First Fleet, hoping to advance his career. Instead, his life is unimaginably changed. As a young officer and a man of science, the eccentric Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange new land. As the newcomers struggle to establish a settlement for themselves and their cargo of convicts, Rooke sets up his observatory to chart the stars. A young Aboriginal girl visits and begins to teach him her language. As they learn to speak together, they build a rapport that bridges the gap between their dangerously different worlds. Then Rooke is given a command that forces him to choose between his duty as a soldier and the friendship that's become so precious to him.
