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English Passengers

(2000)
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Awards
2000 Booker Prize (shortlist)
2000 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel

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.


Genre: Historical

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