Dimensions
128 x 195 x 15mm
In 1855 an unusual eugenics experiment pits a British craniologist, Dr Samuel Bates, against his French rival, Jean-Louis Beavoix. Two infants, a black boy and a white girl, are raised on a deserted island by a mute nurse and monitored twice yearly. Bates claims the white child will show signs of natural superiority while Belavoix argues that the two races will be equal, with each side showing the urge to conquer. What will be left after the twelve years are over? Which child will be the master and which the slave? For surely one will triumph over the other …
