Matthew Kneale
Paperback | Pages: 446 pages Rating: 4.06 | 6023 Users | 543 Reviews
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| Original Title: | English Passengers |
| ISBN: | 038549744X (ISBN13: 9780385497442) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2000), Whitbread Award for Novel and Book of the Year (2000), Prix Relay du Roman d'Evasion (2002) |
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In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe. The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a sinister thesis about the races of men. Meanwhile, an aboriginal in Tasmania named Peevay recounts his people’s struggles against the invading British, a story that begins in 1824, moves into the present with approach of the English passengers in 1857, and extends into the future in 1870. These characters and many others come together in a storm of voices that vividly bring a past age to life.Particularize Based On Books English Passengers
| Title | : | English Passengers |
| Author | : | Matthew Kneale |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 446 pages |
| Published | : | January 16th 2001 by Anchor (first published March 14th 2000) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Australia |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 6023 Users | 543 ReviewsNotice Based On Books English Passengers
An immensely satisfying read and a literary adventure! Thats what this book was. It began with the first line: Say a man catches a bullet through his skull in somebodys war, so wheres the beginning of that?How can you not be pulled into a story that begins thus? On top of that, the man behind this first line bears the auspicious name of Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley, and he is as delightful as his name suggests (though you cannot see his more piratical side from the name, but it is there).An excellently quirky, educational, thought-provoking, and often humourous book that avoids being confusing (despite multiple narrators) or off-putting when describing the more shocking aspects of the near extinction of Aborigines in Tasmania and the views of white supremacists. Even the potentially awkward mix of socio-political themes and jolly japes works.PLOT(Not saying more than is on the back cover.)It is set in the 1800s and opens with the crew of Sincerity from the Isle of Man, intent on
A voyage of exploration and discovery quickly turn into mutiny and disaster in more says than one when the crew fall out with their passengers. Added to that is the inhospitable natives they encounter. Since explorers have discovered new lands the natives have always been given a raw deal. I'm the days of the British empire it was taken as a God given right to rule newly discovered lands and often the natives rebelled ,especially in places like India as mentioned in this book.
A historical novel set in the 19th century, this novel tells the intertwined stories of a shipload of Manx bootleggers; an expedition to find the garden of Eden in Tasmania, led by a misguided, pompous parson, and including a sinister doctor whose theories on racial types motivate him; and the plight of the Tasmanian aborigines whom the English killed, corralled and civilized, focusing on one Peevay, a half-caste.A superb, amazing adventure of a book: its hilarious at times, using a
This is a wonderfully original book. A mix of history, intrigue and human suffering this is a unique book with an accessible story that is nevertheless 'literary'.We follow several threads of this story - first a vicar who is obsessed with finding the Garden of Eden in Tasmania. He finds a rich benefactor who funds an expedition to find the garden. Added to the expedition are a doctor with extreme racial views - concerning mental attainment, scientific experimentation etc - and a young man who
Peevay's take: BOOK started wonderfully. BANG! Like Manx gun. All echoey bouncing off num WHITE MEN. Scuts! Captain Illiam Killian Kewley's take: I came to the godforsaken island of Tasmania speaking my strange Manx tongue, with my Manx crew. If I could have found a way to weigh anchor with the slebby preacher, Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, his nemesis, the snurly Dr. Thomas Potter and the gorm, lazy bones, Timothy Renshaw attached, I would gladly have done so. But instead fate put us all together
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