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''Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse''s life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history''
Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner

''A truly remarkable account drawing upon a version Pelletier gave when he eventually returned to his native France and also on anthropological studies of the Daintree people.''

Piers Akerman, Daily Telegraph, Sydney

''An unforgettable tale of transformation and upheaval.''
Stuart McLean, Daily Telegraph, Sydney


A young boy abandoned in an alien landscape thousands of miles from home is adopted by local people and becomes one of them, welcomed into their community, marrying a wife and raising a child. After seventeen years, he is stolen back to his ''real'' life, where he has another family, but dreams constantly of what he has left behind.

This is the remarka

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Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history. * Irish Examiner *
A truly remarkable account drawing upon a version Pelletier gave when he eventually returned to his native France and also on anthropological studies of the Daintree people. -- Piers Akerman * Daily Telegraph, Sydney *
An unforgettable tale of transformation and upheaval. -- Stuart McLean * Daily Telegraph, Sydney *

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A Paperback / softback by Robert Macklin

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    Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
    Publication Date: 07/11/2019
    ISBN13: 9781472140692, 978-1472140692
    ISBN10: 1472140699

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse''s life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history''
    Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner

    ''A truly remarkable account drawing upon a version Pelletier gave when he eventually returned to his native France and also on anthropological studies of the Daintree people.''

    Piers Akerman, Daily Telegraph, Sydney

    ''An unforgettable tale of transformation and upheaval.''
    Stuart McLean, Daily Telegraph, Sydney


    A young boy abandoned in an alien landscape thousands of miles from home is adopted by local people and becomes one of them, welcomed into their community, marrying a wife and raising a child. After seventeen years, he is stolen back to his ''real'' life, where he has another family, but dreams constantly of what he has left behind.

    This is the remarka

    Trade Review
    Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history. * Irish Examiner *
    A truly remarkable account drawing upon a version Pelletier gave when he eventually returned to his native France and also on anthropological studies of the Daintree people. -- Piers Akerman * Daily Telegraph, Sydney *
    An unforgettable tale of transformation and upheaval. -- Stuart McLean * Daily Telegraph, Sydney *

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