English Passengers - Hardcover

Kneale, Matthew

 
9780385259491: English Passengers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385259492 ISBN 13: 9780385259491
Verlag: Doubleday Canada, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

English Passengers is a big book in every sense: an ambitious and successful epic novel that matches the high seas adventure of The Voyage of the Narwhal with the wit and masterful intelligence of An Instance of the Fingerpost and the historical depth of Robert Hughes's The Fatal Shore.

When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers from the Isle of Man are intercepted by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship Sincerity up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson and Dr. Thomas Potter, who want Kewley to take them to the Garden of Eden, which the Reverend believes is on the island of Tasmania. Fortunately for all concerned, British Customs has failed to confiscate all the smugglers' contraband, and so they're willing to embark for the other side of the globe via a circuitous route designed to evade authorities.

Meanwhile, in Tasmania, the British "civilization" of the aboriginal tribes is in full force. The clever and charming Peevay narrates the British colonials' genocidal assault on his tribe, which is being violently forced from its lands. In fact, every character of any significance has a voice in the narration of English Passengers, and so when Sincerity finally reaches Tasmania, the clash of cultures on all fronts gives rise to the outrageous confrontations, hysterical mayhem, and uniquely rendered personal truths of conquest and devastation.

The novel is truly a bravura performance by a writer of exceptional skill and talent, a novel that will set new standards for historical and nautical adventure writing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Kneale lives in Oxford, England. English Passengers is his first book to be published in North America.

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"English Passengers is what fiction ought to be: ambitious, narrative-driven, with a story and a quest we don'tmind going on. On page after page I found myself laughing or nodding or simply envious. I was compelled from first to last, and beyond. The characters are still living with me."--Nicholas Shakespeare.

"This is a master storyteller at work, and he has written an astonishingly vivid and moving novel--wholly persuasive, blisteringly critical and very, very funny."--Kevin Patterson, author of The Water In Between

"A wonderfully rich and energetic book, full of surprises."--Jack Hodgins, author of Broken Ground

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Aus dem Klappentext

English Passengers is a big book in every sense: an ambitious and successful epic novel that matches the high seas adventure of The Voyage of the Narwhal with the wit and masterful intelligence of An Instance of the Fingerpost and the historical depth of Robert Hughes's The Fatal Shore.

When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers from the Isle of Man are intercepted by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship Sincerity up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson and Dr. Thomas Potter, who want Kewley to take them to the Garden of Eden, which the Reverend believes is on the island of Tasmania. Fortunately for all concerned, British Customs has failed to confiscate all the smugglers' contraband, and so they're willing to embark for the other side of the globe via a circuitous route designed to evade authorities.

Meanwhile, in Tasmania, the British "civilization" of the aboriginal tribes is in full force. The clever and charming Peevay narrates the British colonials' genocidal assault on his tribe, which is being violently forced from its lands. In fact, every character of any significance has a voice in the narration of English Passengers, and so when Sincerity finally reaches Tasmania, the clash of cultures on all fronts gives rise to the outrageous confrontations, hysterical mayhem, and uniquely rendered personal truths of conquest and devastation.

The novel is truly a bravura performance by a writer of exceptional skill and talent, a novel that will set new standards for historical and nautical adventure writing.

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Verlag
Doubleday Canada
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385259492
ISBN 13 
9780385259491
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
464
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