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Debatable land

Candia McWilliam

1994216 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1994
first published
  • 1994Bloomsbury · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9780747517085
  • 1994Nan A. Talese · 284 pages · ENGISBN 9780385263108
  • 1994Chivers · 344 pages · ENGISBN 9780745126388
  • 1995Picador · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9780330336628
  • 1995Chivers · 344 pages · ENGISBN 9780745126395
  • 2011Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · ENGISBN 9781408826973
  • 2011Bloomsbury UK · 224 pagesISBN 9781408822999

This is the story of six characters sailing a yacht from Tahiti to New Zealand. Three of them are Scottish, and as they sail from island to island, each colonised in its different way, the small northern country that has formed them exerts its own magnetic pull.

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