English passengers
By: Matthew Kneale
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780140285215
Subjects: Archaeological expeditions; Ocean travel; Expedition; Antiquities; British; Fiction; Segelschiff; History
Description: This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania to find the garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe, struggling against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty.
Notes: Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 2000.