Voicing The Dead
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You ask 'Can the dead speak?' I answer 'Is this blood that runs in my veins or ink?' So writes Jack Ireland a 14-year -old English-born shipwreck survivor captured by headhunters and adopted by Torres Strait Islanders as the ghost of their own dead child. Rescued after years of captivity his sufferings are recorded in the London Times 1836-1837 and his own remarkable autobiography 1845. In Voicing The Dead internationally-awarded author Gary Crew revisits the story of Jack Ireland who lived to fight - and write - back.
Author: Gary Crew
Format: Paperback, 346 pages, 130mm x 198mm
Published: 2015, Ford Street Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia
Genre: Historical & Mythological Fiction
Description
You ask 'Can the dead speak?' I answer 'Is this blood that runs in my veins or ink?' So writes Jack Ireland a 14-year -old English-born shipwreck survivor captured by headhunters and adopted by Torres Strait Islanders as the ghost of their own dead child. Rescued after years of captivity his sufferings are recorded in the London Times 1836-1837 and his own remarkable autobiography 1845. In Voicing The Dead internationally-awarded author Gary Crew revisits the story of Jack Ireland who lived to fight - and write - back.
Voicing The Dead