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Book Review of English Passengers

English Passengers
English Passengers
Author: Matthew Kneale
Book Type: Paperback
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Booker Prize finalist - copyright - 2000/2001

an intellectual and comic adventure tale: in 1857 a motley, quirky group set out in a ship from England for Tasmania - one a minister intent on proving the Garden of Eden was located there. Meanwhile a Tasmanian aborigine recounts his people's struggles with invading British...