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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) |
Matthew Kneale
Paperback | Pages: 446 pages Rating: 4.06 | 6023 Users | 543 Reviews
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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.
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| Title | : | English Passengers |
| Author | : | Matthew Kneale |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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 ReviewsDiscuss Based On Books English Passengers
Voices out of a New Zealand penal colony, the best and most poignant character is the aborigine who believes the English are ghosts because of their skin colorA 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.
Colonizing EdenThree Englishmen set out on a Manx sailing vessel to reach Tasmania. One is a cleric who believes the island is the site of the Garden of Eden, another is a surgeon with pre-Hitlerian ideas about racial stereotypes, and the third is a young botanist. Interwoven with this is the story of the exploitation and near-extermination of the aboriginal peoples at the hands of the English colonists, whether exploitative or well-intentioned. Taken together, the various interwoven stories,
Lots of glowing reviews from Goodreads friends got me excited to read English Passengers, and it didn't disappoint. This novel about an ill-fated expedition to search for the Garden of Eden in Tasmania takes the voice of many narrators, some contributing only a single chapter and a core handful returning several times. The characters we get to know best include a few great ones: Illiam Quillian Kewley is a Manx smuggler with a wry sense of humor and a philosophical attitude toward the many
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This is one of the best books I've read in ages: resonant, entertaining, and affecting. At the first level of craft, Kneale's ability to make distinctive and authentic nearly every one of it's full chorus of voices is masterful. But it's more than that. The book's narrative follows two separate trajectories which intersect only briefly, towards the end of the book, and then again diverge; they could well have been two separate books. However, telling us these two stories in parallel brings us
Wonderful reading! A very complex novel, told from many points of view. Characters, their language, experience, and perspective all weave together to portray the voyage of a Manx ship to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) to find Geological evidence of the Garden of Eden. Some of the most vivid descriptions of Tasmania I've ever read (and I've traveled the entire island quite thoroughly). From the prisoners of Port Arthur to the farms on the plain near Launceston, Kneale really captures the rugged,
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