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English · Paperback / Softback

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Vienna, 1903: Thirty-three-year-old Marta Mueller, natural historian and talented artist, meets Bernard Schmidt, a copra planter from German East Neuguinea (now Papua New Guinea) who is looking for a wife. For Marta, who longs to travel the world, Bernard is a window of opportunity and a chance to start anew. A few months later Marta is married and sailing for the Pacific. Her new husband''s friends are a strange group: Australians, Samoans, Europeans and natives mix uneasily and unconventionally in the hot, humid, and unstable environment of German-ruled Neuguinea. Marta must find her feet, and herself, far away from her family during her marriage and, later, the British-Australian conquest and formation of Papua New Guinea. Eventually, Marta finds a real, if unconventional love, and achieves greater success in her artistic and scientific work than she might ever have dreamed.


Product details

Authors Kelly Ana Morey
Publisher Huia Publishers
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 03.09.2010
 
EAN 9781869694319
ISBN 978-1-86969-431-9
No. of pages 200
Dimensions 210 mm x 139 mm x 26 mm
Weight 368 g
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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