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BY ROCK AND POOL ON AN AUSTRAL SHORE AND OTHER STORIES IBD

BOOK JUNGLE
04 / 2010
9781438594217
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Sinopsis

George Lewis Becke (1855 -1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist. As a child Becke twice ran away and when he turned 16 he was a stowaway on a ship bound for Samoa. At age 18 Becke met William 'Bully' Hayes who later became a central character in Becke?s writings. When shipwrecked in 1874 Becke was arrested as a pirate and was later acquitted. This collection contains By rock and pool, Solepa, The fisher folk of Nukufetau, Mrs. MacLaggan?s billy, An island memory, A hundred fathoms deep, On a tidal river, Denison gets another ship, Jack Shark?s pilot, The 'Palu' of the equatorial Pacific, The wily 'Goanner', The ta~nifa of Samoa, On board the Tucopia, and The man in the buffalo hide

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