Why a Booktrail?
1857 – A captain plans to smuggle tobacco, porn and brandy from the Isle of Man to England but ends up weighing anchor for Australia!
English Passengers
What you need to know before your trail
It’s 1857
Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of men on their smuggling way from the Isle of Man to England have most of their contraband confiscated by customs so are forced to put their ship up for charter,
The only two men to take them up on the offer are two Englishmen who are keen to go on the adventure of their lives – al the way to Australia!
They have a mission in mind – The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania so wants to see it for himself. The other man Dr. Thomas Potter however, is developing a sinister thesis about the races of men, unbeknownst to Wilson.
Adventure and Australia beckons. Meanwhile in Tasmania, an Aborigine man recounts his people’s struggles against the invading British.
The English Passengers are on their way….
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The journey
Sailing from England to Australia in a boat named Sincerity… you just know that this is going to have a lot of hidden meaning
The boat is carrying such a vast range of characters al with their own agendas and ideas. There are many narrators throughout the novel but its those on the boat which paint a picture of a long and arduous journey to the other side of the world. From Mann Island :
“Vessels sailed into her ports direct from every corner of the world, from Europe and Africa, from Indies West and East.”
The Reverend, in search of the garden of Eden believes Potter particularly a heretic. The two men represent the creationist v evolution theories of the time. Potter is interested in the Aborigines and looks set to study them further for a book he is writing. The journey is hard –
The weather seemed obstinately resolved to grow worse rather than better, and by morning waves were crashing against the bow so hard that the whole vessel reverberated with their force.
Tasmania
30 years before Sincerity reaches its shores, many settlers are starting to arrive on the island. Aborignes feel threatened and relations between newcomers are becoming tense. Peevay’s mother was aborgine and was attacked and kidnapped by a convict. Understandably she now hates all white men and she wants to find her attacher. Peevay joins her fight
What is happening to their people and to Tasmania as a whole?
“Truly it was a mystery to confuse how they ever could kill all my ones and steal the world, or even why they wanted it, as it was no place they could endure. Why, they couldn’t live here just alone but had to carry some HOBART TOWN with them hither and thither.”
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