LNL Summer: Australia's first novelist revealed plus the race to save the world's islands

Update: 2025-01-02

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Author Henry Savery is credited with being Australia's first novelist, for his work 'Quintus Servinton', but in his new book author and historian Sean Doyle says in fact the first Autralian-born novelist was John Lang. Plus the challenge to save the world's islands and their inhabitants from the triple threat threat of invasive species, sea level rises and global heating.

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LNL Summer: Australia's first novelist revealed plus the race to save the world's islands

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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LNL Summer: Australia's first novelist revealed plus the race to save the world's islands

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

LNL Summer: Australia's first novelist revealed plus the race to save the world's islands