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By Reef and Palm

By Reef and Palm

Becke, Louis

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1438513151
ISBN13: 9781438513157
Publisher: Book Jungle
Published: Mar 14 2009
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.27 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
George Lewis Becke (1855 ù1913) 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. A collection of his stories from the Bulletin was published in By Reef and Palm in England (1894). The Table of Contents includes, CHALLIS THE DOUBTER, 'TIS IN THE BLOOD, THE REVENGE OF MACY O'SHEA, THE RANGERS OF TIA KAU, PALLOU'S TALOI, A BASKET OF BREAD-FRUIT, ENDERBY'S COURTSHIP, LONG CHARLEY'S GOOD LITTLE WIFE, THE METHODICAL MR BURR OF MAJURU, A TRULY GREAT MAN, THE DOCTOR'S WIFE, THE FATE OF THE ALIDA, THE CHILIAN BLUEJACKET, and BRANTLEY OF VAHITAHI.

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