Gould's book of fish

Description:

The most remarkable novel yet from the internationally acclaimed author of Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping, this is a marvelous historical epic of 19th century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish.

subjects: Fiction,  Marine animals in art,  Prisoners as artists,  Penal colonies,  Fishes in art,  Prisoners,  Painters,  Biographical fiction,  Historical fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Australia, fiction,  Artists, fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, biographical,  Fiction, general

People: William Buelow Gould (1803-1853)

Places: Australia