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"Sacred Hunger" is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.
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This brilliantly suspenseful period piece about the slave trade in the 18th century is also a meditation on how avarice dehumanizes the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1992
ISBN 10: 0140179917
ISBN 13: 9780140179910
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Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor edge wear, old dealer sticker to rear cover. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unopened. Cover artwork by Anne Magill. ; 640 pages; Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. Set in the mid eighteenth century as the Liverpool Merchant sets sail for the African coast to ply the Triangle Trade and take slaves to the Americas. Aboard are two cousins, Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, who seeks a forune to marry the young upper-class woman whom he loves, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon who has lost everything due to his beliefs. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 25605
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