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Feuerland
“Tierra del Fuego” (title translated by AI)
Michael Hugentobler (born 1975)
English editions
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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.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 222 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Argentina, Chile, Germany, 1850s–1940s
- First published
- 2021 by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9783423282697 (original)