A story of an ancient ship taking passengers and cargo to Australia at the end of the Napoleonic era.
It starts out very funny, almost Waugh like, but has a tragic ending. Humans are not very nice creatures a lot of the time .
This won the Booker in 1980 beating out Anthony Burgess's " Earthly Powers" which puts it on the back foot for me anyway as "Powers" is a favourite.
Its not a fun read after the first 50 pages.
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