The Lieutenant
- author
- Kate Grenville
- Narrator
- Bill Wallis
- Length
- 7 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher
- BBC
- Catalogue #
- 8897
- Categories
- Contemporary Fiction
- Reviews
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Daniel Rooke is Astronomer with the First Fleet landing on the shores of New South Wales. He sets up his observatory as the newcomers struggle to establish a settlement for themselves . Gradually Rooke gets to know the local Aboriginal people and establishes a special bond with one child in particular.