Nanberry: Black Brother White by Jackie French

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page.

The fantastic story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted.

It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy to raise as his son.

Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in. With his white brother Andrew he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. And yet he is haunted by the memories of the Cadigal warriors who will one day come to claim him as one of their own. (back cover)