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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

English Passengers

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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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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Say a man catches a bullet through his skull in somebody's war, so where's the beginning of that?This perfectly fine question is posed by captain Illiam Quillian Kewley at the beginning of English Passengers. The year is 1857, and Kewley and his crew of Manx sailors only wished to transport some duty-free liquor from the Isle of Man - strategically located right in the middle of the Irish Sea - to mainland England, where the ruthless British Customs officials were waiting for them to do just

Lazy, simpleminded, almost unremmittingly tedious, although occasionally farcical, sometimes even funny, it's Hollywood action if it was written by a modestly sized Brit in longhand. Most of the casual racism exists in what's missing.Before I quarter this book to keep the horses warm, a word about the author. You might want to turn away now, if you can't handle the truth. Many months ago I'd read half of some collection of his short stories and was left with the impression: moralist, trying too



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.

The beginning of this book LIES. I love the opening character, Captain Illiam Quilliam Kewley. He is a fabulous, interesting, quirky guy who you want to curl up in front of a fire and spend time with. However... the problem is that he doesn't narrate more than a 1/4 of the book. Author LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE tries to draw you in with this good-time guy and then slams you with Tasmanian "savages" in chapters written in an insane dialect that requires a good strong shot of bourbon to get through,

Very unusual, brilliant book. Witty, fast pacing. The characters, none of them very nice, apart from some of the aborigines are very much alive. Smugglers from Isle of Man, crazy preacher, ex convicts, Tasmanian people, an unpleasant racist doctor, many others tell their stories in separate chapters, written in first person, and the story comes together, like a quilt.It made me think about racism, how somehow, it is almost always the USA that gets mentioned.Yet, British, and later Australian

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,