Nanberry

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 * French, Jackie, "Nanberry; Black Brother White"; Pymble, NSW : HarperCollins Australia, 320 pages. It would be hard to find an account of the early settlement of Sydney more evocative than this. French tells the story of real people whose details exist in old letters and diaries. Nanberry really was a small Aboriginal boy adopted by the colony's surgeon after the boy's people had died from disease brought to Australia by the early colonists. Rachel Turner really was the surgeon's convict housekeeper. French brings to life the early sounds, sights, smells, struggles and prejudices of Sydney Town. Aboriginal students would find the whole story confronting, however. But extracts read aloud would give an idea of the lives of the people who came on the First Fleet. Especially important and arresting is the way the story shows how the Indigenous people were impacted by the white invaders. ||  || [[image:http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/medium/1/9780732290221.jpg caption="Nanberry: Black Brother White By Jackie French" link="http://browseinside.harpercollins.com.au/index.aspx?isbn13=9780732290221"]] ||
 * Nanberry: Black Brother White By Jackie French ||  ||