Jemmy Button

• Author(s): Alix Barzelay,
• Publisher: Templar Publishing
• Pages: 44
• ISBN_10: 1848776152
  ISBN_13: 9781848776159
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America , Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Europe ,

Description:... Inspired by the life of Jemmy Button, a native of Tierra del Fuego who was brought into England in the mid-1800s to be 'educated' and 'civilised' by British missionaries and explorers. This book illustrates Jemmy's adventures in England, his bizarre and extraordinary encounters there, his experience as an outsider in a new land and culture, and his return back home. This book focuses on the theme of distance and homesickness.