Pacific tales / by Louis Becke ; Introduction by Kaori O'Connor
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Credit LineBecke, Louis
Object numberBKS.724
DescriptionTrader, pirate, smuggler, beachcomber, castaway - the Australian adventurer Louis Becke had been all of these before he turned his hand to writing stories. Behind him lay twenty four turbulent years spent ashore and afloat with some of the roughest, rowdiest and most ruthless men who ever sailed the South Seas. He wrote of what he knew, and his revealing tales of raffish sea and island life worn him acclaim as "the Rudyard Kipling of the Pacific". A realist rather than a romantic, Becke writes vigorously and unabashedly about a paradise where there are no angels.On View
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