A novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on
the discovery of Australia's oldest known human inhabitant. Shade
lives peaceably with his second wife on the shores of a bountiful
lake. Conscious of ageing but still vigorous, when called on by the
spirit ancestors to sacrifice himself for the sake of his clan, he
knows he must obey. Over 40,000 years later, Shade's skeleton is
unearthed near the now dry Lake Learned in New South Wales. The
sensational discovery of so-called 'Learned Man' rewrites the
history of Australia and fuels the Aboriginal people's claim to be
the land's rightful owners - and has a lasting impact on a young
documentary maker, Shelby Apple, who gets caught up in the fate of
Learned's remains. When Shelby, too, faces mortality and looks back
on his life, Learned stands as an enduring spirit, a fellow player
in the long, ever-evolving story of humankind.
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