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Feuerland
Title translated by AI:“Tierra del Fuego”
Michael Hugentobler · 46 when first published
Novel · 222 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Thomas Bridges, foster son of an English missionary, grows up among Yamana children in Tierra del Fuego in the mid-nineteenth century and obsessively compiles a dictionary of their language, which decades later a German ethnologist tries to save.