e-books in Louis Becke category
The Pearl Divers of Roncador Reefby Louis Becke - J. Clarke , 1908
Contents: The pearl divers of Roncador Reef; Jim Trollope and myself; For the benefit of sailors' kids; The Manurua and the Marguerite; A blackbirding incident; A strange rencontre; Crowley and Drake, Limited; Nerida, the maid of Suwarrow; etc.
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The Ebbing of the Tideby Louis Becke - J. B. Lippincott , 1896
South Sea Stories: Luliban of the pool; Ninia; Baldwin's Loise; At a kafa-drinking; Mrs Liardet: a South Sea trading episode; Kennedy the boatsteerer; A dead loss; Hickson: a half-caste; A boating party of two; The best asset in a fool's estate; etc.
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By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shoreby Louis Becke - New Amsterdam Book Company , 1901
The quaint little town faces eastward to the blue Pacific, whose billows, when the wind blows from any point between north and east, come tumbling in across the shallow bar in ceaseless lines of foaming white, to meet the current of a tidal river ...
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Under Tropic Skiesby Louis Becke - Thomas Allen , 1904
Drake, the supercargo of the Palestine, made Alvord's acquaintance one dull, lowering day when a black north easter was blowing hard, and a sullen, heavy sea tumbled upon the long line of beach that stretched from Point Plomer ten miles away ...
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By Reef and Palmby Louis Becke - J.B. Lippincott company , 1894
A Fictional Journey to the Lands of Paradise. This small collection of 'yarns' about life in the Pacific Islands launched Australian author Louis Becke, a former sailor, into whirlwind celebrity with its publication in the late 1890s.
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The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Islandby Louis Becke - T. Fisher Unwin , 1898
The tale of the mutiny of HMS Bounty, which led to the founding of the Pitcairn community, is well known. Casting adrift the Commander in the ship's boat, the mutineers sailed the Bounty back to Tahiti, then to Tubuai in the Austral Group ...
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