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Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson descendant claiming ownership, government agents eyeing the nation-less real estate, and scientists looking to test a dangerous new invention. In typical Themerson fashion, the comic is wound up with the serious and let go to devastating effect. A clever and apt parodying of Cold War power plays and twisted science, Hobson's Island is a strangely touching, sympathetic, and emotional account of the families and individuals brought together and broken up by Hobson's Island.
George Hobson, Sr. (ca. 1677-1748), was born in England, and died in Frederick Co., Virginia. He was an apple farmer. George and his wife Elizabeth supposedly arrived in Philadelphia in 1697 from England. They had not been definitely located until 1732 when they are found in Orange Co., Va. (what is now Berkeley Co., West Virginia). Prior to Orange County they most likely lived in Chester Co., Pennsylvania. They had one son, George Hobson, Jr. (ca. 1716-1797), born in Chester Co., Pa. and died in Chatham Co., North Carolina. He married (1) Hannah Elizabeth Kinnison (ca. 1717-1761), daughter of Edward Kinnison and Mary Greenaway, in 1732 in Burlington Co., N.J. He married (2) Rebekah? ca. 1761. Fourteen children are recorded in this book, he supposedly had twenty. Descendants live in North Carolina, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Arkansas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Kansas, California, North Dakota, Utah, Arizona and elsewhere.
For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Phillip Meyer, Fargo, and Justified, a gritty rural noir thriller about family, drugs, and the legacy of violence. In an isolated town on the coast of southern Australia, Vernon Moore and his wife, Penelope, live in retirement, haunted by an unspeakable act of violence that sent their son, Caleb, to serve time in prison and has driven the couple apart. Ashamed, they refuse to talk about him or visit, but when a close friend warns Vernon that Caleb has been savagely beaten, he has no choice but to act to protect their only child. The perpetrator of the beating is a local thug from a crime family whose patriarch holds sway over the town, with the police in his pay. Everyone knows they trade in drugs. When Vernon maneuvers to negotiate a deal with the father, he makes a critical error. His mistake unleashes a cycle of violence that escalates to engulf the whole town, taking lives with it, revealing what has been hiding in plain sight in this picturesque rural community and threatening to overtake his son. Told from shifting perspectives at a sprint, in language that sometimes approaches the simple profundity of parable, this gritty debut was hailed on its Australian publication as “a darkly illuminating thriller that soars across genre constraints . . . [and] engages with pressing contemporary issues while exploring timeless questions. Hobson writes as if his life depends on it” (The Australian).
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This book "reproduces in full colour the beautiful and fascinating Album presented to Mrs Hobson, the wife of New Zealand's first governor, when she left New Zealand in 1843 after the death of her husband. [It] contains fifty charming watercolours and drawings by at least eight known artists... There are ... some important and attractive scenes of contemporary Māori life and customs. ... The Album also contains a letter from Te Wherowhero, the first Māori king, to Queen Victoria, and a moving farewell to Mrs Hobson from the distinguished Māori chief Wiremu Hoete. Edward Shortland's written examples and comment on Māori customs, songs, and proverbs are also of considerable interest."--Book jacket.