The sooterkin

Tom Gilling

earliest edition we have, 1999 Penguin Books, Limited, 2000 212 pages

"On a squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Tasmania, a thing more seal than human. As news of the creature spreads through the colony, incredulous doctors come to peer under Sarah's skirts. The Reverend Mr Kidney suspects a virgin birth. Mr Sculley, anatomist and man of science, hails it as the antipodean answer to the elusive Dutch sooterkin.". "The pup...

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Sooterkin edition · 2001 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780140288117
Sooterkin edition · 2001 · Penguin Publishing Group · 9780141002019
Sooterkin edition · 2000 · Penguin Books, Limited · 212 pages · 9780670888917
The sooterkin edition · 2000 · Viking · 212 pages
The sooterkin edition · 1999 · Text Publishing Co. · 212 pages

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