Henderson's spear : a novel
Book |
1st ed. |
Henry Holt,
New York :
2002.
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About
"Olivia, a Canadian filmmaker, is writing from a Tahitian jail, piecing together her troubled past and her family's buried history for the daughter she gave up to adoption years before. The search for her own father, a pilot missing since the Korean War, has brought her to the South Seas and landed her behind bars on a trumped-up murder charge. In the stillness of her cell, Olivia ponders the meaning of the secret journals she discovered after her mother's death. Their author is her ancestor Frank Henderson, a British naval officer who, as a young man, came to these same waters a hundred years before." "The journals tell of his terrifying adventures in West Africa and an extraordinary three-year voyage to Polynesia with Queen Victoria's grandsons - Prince George (later George V) and his brother Prince Eddy, who would die young and disgraced. Frank's long-ago revelations, which included a fleeting love affair with a Polynesian girl, lead Olivia to understand her father's disappearance and her mother's strange attitude toward the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- Physical Description: 334 p. ; 25 cm.print
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2002.
- General Note: "A John Macrae book.".