Rites of passage

Description:

During the early 18th century, passengers on a ship to Australia include a parson whom the crew choses as a scapegoat.

subjects: Immigrants,  Ocean travel,  Fiction,  Fiction in Spanish,  Man Booker Prize Winner,  award:man_booker_prize=1980,  Fiction in English,  Emigration and immigration,  History,  Large type books,  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815,  Historical fiction,  Napoleanic Wars, 1800-1815,  Ocean trael,  Voyages and travels(Fictitious character),  English Sea stories,  Nobility,  Nobility -- Fiction,  Immigrants -- Australia -- Fiction,  Sea stories, English,  Ocean trael -- Fiction,  Voyages and travels(Fictitious character) -- Fiction,  England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, sea stories,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, biographical,  Australia, fiction

Places: Australia,  England

Times: 19th century