1st Edition

Pacific Tales

By Becke Copyright 1987
340 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

George Lewis Becke (1848-1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist. He began his voyages in the south seas at a very early age and there are two accounts of these beginnings: one by the Earl of Pembroke, who presumably obtained his information from Becke, which is prefixed to By Reef and Palm (1894), and the other written by Becke. It is difficult to reconcile them, and all that is... Read more
AN ISLAND MEMORY: ENGLISH BOB IN THE OLD, BEACHCOMBING DAYS MRS. MALLESON'S RIVAL PRESCOTT OF NAURA CHESTER'S CROSS HOLLIS'S DEBT: A TALE OF THE NORTH-WEST PACIFIC THE ARM OF LUNO CAPAL IN A SAMOAN VILLAGE COLLIER: THE BLACKBIRDER IN THE EVENING • THE GREAT CRUSHING AT MOUNT SUGAR-BAG • THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD FOR WE WERE FRIENDS ALWAYS NIKOA THE STRANGE WHITE WOMAN OF MADUR.O THE OBSTINACY OF MRS. TATTON • DR. LUDWIG SCHWALBE, SOUTH SEA SAVANT THE TREASUR·E OF DON BRUNO.

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