English Passengers
Narrated by Simon Callow
- Released
- August 23, 2005
- Length
- 6 hrs 44 mins
- Format
- Abridged Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2000, this novel follows Reverend Geoffrey Wilson’s 1857 expedition from England to Tasmania in search of the Garden of Eden, but encounters complex motives among his crew and a ship burdened with contraband. Meanwhile, an Aboriginal man named Peevay shares his people's struggle amid the harsh realities of colonial conquest. As the journey unfolds, the characters' contrasting worlds threaten to collide, revealing a stark and tumultuous landscape of exploration, ambition, and conflict.
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