![]() The year is 1857, and the study of geology is beginning to make serious inroads into areas of religious doctrine. ![]() Worse, they're forced to carry three temperamental Englishmen bound for Tasmania on a mission to discover the exact location of the Garden of Eden. Yet somehow in the process, he and his crew end up weighing anchor for Australia. One of the narrators of Matthew Kneale's ambitious historical novel English Passengers has more modest aspirations: Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy, and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. ![]() Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India when he ran full-tilt boogie into the Americas. ![]()
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