Publicado por Basu, Kunal, 2007
ISBN 10: 0753821508 ISBN 13: 9780753821503
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. About the Author Kunal Basu was born in Calcutta but has spent much of his adult life in Canada and the USA. He currently teaches at Oxford and McGill universities. Product Description In 1855, an ambitious eugenics experiment pits a British craniologist, Dr. Samuel Bates, against his French rival, Jean-Louis Belavoix: two infants, a black boy and a white girl, are raised on a deserted island by a mute nurse and monitored twice yearly. But doubts surface in London about the scientists' real intentions. Eventually, the ferry captain who supplies provisions to the island agrees to help the nurse escape with the children; but, before he returns to rescue them, an "accident" turns their reunion into tragedy.