A long way home / Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose.
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TextPublisher: [Melbourne] : Penguin Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2013Description: 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670077045 :; 9780399169281 (hardback); 9780143786504 (paperback); 0143786504Subject(s): Brierley, Saroo | Brierley, Saroo | Brierley, Saroo -- Travel -- India | Brierley, Saroo -- Family | Indian Australians -- Biography | Adopted children -- Australia -- Family relationships | Adopted children -- India -- Family relationships | Internet searching | Parent and child -- India | Adopted children -- Family relationships | Family reunions | Intercountry adoption | Intercountry adoption -- Australia | Family reunions -- India | Birthparents -- India -- Identification | Intercountry adoption -- Australia -- Tasmania | Intercountry adoption -- India | Adopted children -- Family relationships -- Australia | Adopted children -- Family relationships -- India | East Indians -- Australia -- Biography | Adopted children -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography | Australia | India | Hobart (Tas.) -- Biography | Kolkata (India) -- BiographyDDC classification: 306.8740994 LOC classification: HV874.82.B75 | A3 2013Summary: When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia. Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. When he was a young man the advent of Google Earth led him to pour over satellite images of the country for landmarks he recognised. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for. Then he set off on a journey to find his mother.
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Maps on endpapers.
Movie tie-in version published as Lion.
"Now the major motion picture Lion" --Cover.
When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia. Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. When he was a young man the advent of Google Earth led him to pour over satellite images of the country for landmarks he recognised. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for. Then he set off on a journey to find his mother.
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