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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/320460 Title: English Passengers Author: Matthew Kneale Narrator: Simon Callow Format: Abridged Length: 6 hrs 46 mins Language: English Release date: 2005-06-15 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction Publisher's Summary: WINNER - WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2000The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson sets out from England, in the summer of 1857, with an expedition to find the Garden of Eden, which he is convinced lies on the island of Tasmania. Unknown to him, others in the party have very different agendas, notably the surgeon, Dr Potter, who is developing a revolutionary and sinister thesis of his own on the races of man. To complicate matters further, the ship Wilson has hurriedly chartered, crewed by Captain Kewley and his secretive Manxmen, is in fact an ill-starred smuggling vessel, its hidden compartments filled with contraband brandy and tobacco. As the vessel journeys haplessl