Jemmy Button

by Jennifer Uman

This is a true story of how in the 1860s, Captain Fitzroy of HMS Beagle decides to take a boy back to England to civilise him. In payment he gives his mother a mother of pearl button.

Themes

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  • Isolation
  • Loneliness
  • Mystery
  • Adventure
  • True Story
  • Victorians
  • Christianity
  • Music Concerts
  • Travel
  • Homesickness