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Authors: Matthew Kneale
Tags: #General, #Fiction, #Historical - General, #Historical Fiction, #Literary, #Popular American Fiction, #Historical, #Aboriginal Tasmanians, #Tasmanian aborigines, #Tasmania, #Fiction - Historical
English passengers (69 page)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I
WOULD LIKE
to thank the following people for their great help during the long time I have been trying to write this book.In Tasmania: Jenny Scott, Phillipa Foster and Damien Morgan and, most of all, Cassandra Pybus. Thanks to the Archives Office of Tasmania for the use of George Vandiemen’s school report.
In mainland Australia: Gerard Bryant and Jacqui Boyle, Meredith and John Purcell, Maggie Hamilton, Judith Curr.
In the Isle of Man: Alan Kelly.
In Wales: John and Edna Fernihough and all in and around Gros-mont, Gwent.
In England: Deborah Rogers, David Miller, Maggie Black and Pamela Egan.
This book is dedicated to Victoria Egan.
Copyright © 2000 by Matthew Kneale
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Kneale, Matthew, 1960–
English Passengers / Matthew Kneale.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-48431-4
1. Tasmania—History—1803-1900 Fiction. 2. Tasmanian aborigines Fiction.
PR6061.N37E54 2000
823′.914—dc21 99-16402
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