English Passengers

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The Aborigines are given new names: some are Biblical, others almost heretical, but most are deliberately, and often nastily, chosen for reasons that the bearers do not realise. "The older and more exalted of the natives were rewarded with names of quaint grandeur, such as King Alpha... a girl who was dreamy and sad was now Ophelia.. the monstrous female... became Mary, and while this might seem innocent enough, I had little doubt as to which murderous monarch was in Mr Robinson's mind." Never having been keen on anything nautical – books, art or cruises – I have recently watched two BBC series set aboard Victorian sailing vessels and now read this novel which charts a Manx crewed voyage from England to Van Diemens Land (modern day Tasmania). His Majesty's colony of Van Diemen's land is not intended to reform criminals, but simply to store them, like so much rubbish." Pie šīs grāmatas es tiku blogeru Ziemassvētku apdāvināšanās laikā. MsMarii domāja, ka šī ir tā grāmata, kuru man noteikti vajadzētu izlasīt. Solīja, ka tajā būs ceļojums uz Tasmāniju un daudz humora. Tasmānijas aborigēni un kolonizācija patiešām ir viens no maniem mīļākajiem vēstures tematiem, un tādēļ grāmatu pasūtīju nekavējoties oriģinālvalodā. Ar lasīšanu gan tik raiti neveicās, nevarēju saņemties. Ja godīgi, tad es labprāt būtu viņu pircis arī latviski, taču par šāda izdevuma eksistenci uzzināju tikai tad, kad grāmatā nelasītas bija palikušas vien pārdesmit lapaspuses. Barraclough, Leo (November 18, 2016). "Pinewood Atlanta Studios Selects Tech Guru Frank Patterson as President". Variety . Retrieved April 4, 2021.

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Kneale's historical fury, indeed, is so brilliantly evoked through his fiction that a pedagogical "Epilogue", in which the author delineates the factual basis and historical context of his tale, is hardly required. It's closer to a Mike Yarwood "...And this is me" moment than a Tolstoyan analysis, and indeed seems to know rather less than the ventriloquy did. It is hardly true, as Kneale writes, that before the quasi-scientific racism of men such as Potter there had been "little or no attempt" to justify colonialism intellectually - it was very often justified on proselytising religious grounds, as the story itself has shown. In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe. a b Scott Mendelson (March 15, 2017). "Box Office: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt's 'Passengers' Was One Of 2016's Bigger Original Grossers". Forbes . Retrieved March 15, 2017. Sci-Fi Pic 'Passengers' to Star Keanu Reeves, with Brian Kirk Directing and Wayfare Entertainment Producing". Deadline Hollywood. April 18, 2013 . Retrieved July 16, 2013. Child miners in Australia in the 1800's. Thousand of British children deported to Australia are remembered today as the "Forgotten Australians".

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Instead of getting meat cooking on the fire, which was my great desire, I got a war. I never saw one before, no, but I heard stories from Tartoyen, while some things you do understand even without knowing. This was no battle yet, but nearly, with mine on one side and Roingin on other. That was a mystery to confound, yes, as Roingin never could be here, in the world, but must stay in theirs, as everybody knew. Also they weren't enough. Roingin were famous for being many but now they were fewer than mine. Still I could see they were strong, as they had more spears. Tartoyen, Gonar and others of mine just had a few - some didn't have even one - while Roingin had two or three each. That was some grievous worry, yes, and I did ponder how mine could be so piss-poor foolish.

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Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers (2000) has to be called a historical novel; it is set in 1857. Now, I have a resistance to the historical novel, but this writer is one of those, along with J. G. Farrell and John Fowles, who redeem the genre for me. The book was a prize-winner when it was published in 2000 but I feel it may be undeservedly overlooked today, perhaps because Matthew Kneale is a costive writer, with only a couple of other novels appearing since. To compensate for that, English Passengers is a masterpiece, an achievement of such complexity, ingenuity and sheer narrative power that each time I reread it I am newly surprised: how can a writer have thus conjured up the wildly conflicting attitudes of another time, another place, with such persuasive force?

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In When We Were Romans (2007), Kneale takes further his experiments in literary ventriloquism, narrating the entire novel through the idiom of nine-year-old Lawrence, complete with spelling mistakes. The plot involves an increasingly chaotic road-trip to Italy, where Lawrence, his younger sister and their mother lodge with friends, but soon outstay their welcome. Gradually it becomes obvious that their flight from the children’s father has been fuelled by their mother’s escalating paranoia.