A Modern BuccaneerMacmillan, 1894 - 338 Seiten Set in the South Pacific, this novel is written in the form of an autobiography, told by Hilary Telfer. Fascinated by tales of sailors and South Sea Traders, he leaves Sydney at the age of seventeen to take up a life at sea. The novel follows his adventures and provides a commentary on the trade between the islands and the practice of "blackbirding" that was rife at the time.-Wikipedia. |
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2nd Edit Apia arms Arurai ashore beach boat boy George brig cabin canoe Captain Hayston Chabral harbour CHURCH cocoa-nuts coral crew dance dear deck E. A. Wilson ENGLISH ESSAYS eyes F. T. PALGRAVE fellow Frankston friends George girl Globe 8vo hand heard Hilary Hope Island Illustrated Jansen king Kingsmill group Kitty Kusaie Kusis ladies Lalia land laughed Leonora Line Islands look lovely man-of-war mate Millé Miranda Miss Vavasour Morland natives Nellie Neuchamp never night Norfolk Island Ocean Island Peese Percival Pingelap Pleasant Island POEMS Ponapé Pott 8vo Prof queen reef rifle Rosario round sail Samoa schooner seemed Sermons sewed ship shore side skipper South Sea station Strong's Island Sydney tain Telfer tell thought tion told took traders Utwé vessel village vols voyage walked whaleboat whaler whaleships wife women young
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Seite 35 - Ecce Homo. A SURVEY OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF JESUS CHRIST.
Seite 24 - CLEVER WOMAN OF THE FAMILY. THE THREE BRIDES. MY YOUNG ALCIDES. THE CAGED LION. THE DOVE IN THE EAGLE'S NEST. THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS. LADY HESTER, and THE DANVERS PAPERS. MAGNUM BONUM. LOVE AND LIFE. UNKNOWN TO HISTORY. STRAY PEARLS. THE ARMOURER'S PRENTICES.
Seite 27 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
Seite 27 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Seite 39 - A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, organised by ISMAIL, Khedive of Egypt.
Seite 38 - DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE, by SH BUTCHER, MA, and A.