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The Discovery of Slowness
by Sten Nadolny • Ralph Freedman (Translator)
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- 2005
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- 325 PAGES
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A late 20th century fictional biography of the 19th century polar explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), whose disappearance in the Canadian Arctic prompted an unheralded -- and unsuccessful -- search and rescue. Sir John, once the governor of Tasmania, was the subject of a S&R thanks to the tireless agitation on his behalf by his wife, the Lady Jane. A reprint of the excellent Freedman translation, originally published to much acclaim in German in 1987.
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