English Passengers

Author: Matthew Kneale

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9780140285215
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.336
  • : 31 March 2001
  • : 203mm X 130mm X 33mm
  • : 22.99
  • : 10 September 2023
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  • : books

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  • : Matthew Kneale
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  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780140285215
9780140285215

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.

Author description

Matthew Kneale was born in 1960. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, including SWEET THAMES (1992), which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He lives in Oxford.