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14 décembre 2023
- doi: 10.4000/books.mnhn.14613
- isbn: 978-2-38327-006-5
- eisbn: 978-2-38327-007-2
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Stefan Helmreich, « Postface », Publications scientifiques du Muséum, ID : 10.4000/books.mnhn.14613
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In Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish (2001), the Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan spins the tale of an early nineteenth-century forger, thief, and artist imprisoned in a penal colony on Sarah Island, a speck of land in a large and treacherous harbour in Van Diemen’s Land (until 1856 the European name for Tasmania, which has the Aboriginal name of Lutruwita). Sarah Island served between 1822 and 1833 as a zone of extreme isolation for convicts from the Australian colonies. The book’s ...