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Book Review of English Passengers

English Passengers
English Passengers
Author: Matthew Kneale
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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This is an interesting book. It is a historical novel on how the English killed the aborigines in Tasmania and Australia and took over their land. Fortunately. some of the aborigines survived. I could not believe how cold the English were. The law was that the English could not kill aborigines but they did and ignored the law. They tried to turn the aborigines in to Englishman, but that only worked on the surface. The English settled Australia but mixed with the aborigines, which is probably how the aborigines survived. It is an interesting book. I would not have believed it until I had read it.