Potter's theoryĮmerges in several narratives dating from 1820 and thereafter, in which we meet a number of Tasmania's colonial governing Lowest of all the races-or species-of men, being bereft of even the most rudimentary skills." The answer to Dr. What Potter terms "scientific interest," seeks evidence to support his notion that Tasmanian aborigines represent "the very
Garden of Eden did exist: on this remote island off Australia's southern coast.
Pair of "passengers." Reverend Geoffrey Wilson aims to disprove the claims of geology by demonstrating that the biblical (rather grandly named) Sincerity, seized for smuggling, then "put up for charter," and hired to sail to Tasmania by an unlikely In 1857, Captain Illian Kewley blandly relates the misadventures of the ship he commands, the A richly satisfying debut, comparable in many ways to Andrea Barrett's The Voyage of the Narwhal, that uses nearly 20Ĭarefully distinguished voices to tell the convoluted story of a 19th-century expedition to Tasmania and a stalemated conflict
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