By Reef And Palm
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark collection of South Seas fiction, By Reef and Palm chronicles the raw, sun-scorched lives of traders, sailors, and islanders scattered across the remote atolls of the Pacific. Louis Becke draws on his own years of firsthand experience in Micronesia and Polynesia to craft vivid, unsentimental tales that pulse with authenticity and moral ambiguity. Each story presents a world where colonial commerce, indigenous culture, and human desire collide under tropical skies, rendered in prose that is both lyrical and unflinching. Published in 1894, the collection established Becke as a singular voice in adventure literature, earning comparisons to Robert Louis Stevenson for its atmospheric intensity and its honest portrayal of life at the edges of the known world. Readers drawn to maritime adventure and the literature of the Pacific will find in these pages a gripping and historically rich portrait of a vanishing frontier.
Author: Louis Becke
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, Angus & Robertson
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark collection of South Seas fiction, By Reef and Palm chronicles the raw, sun-scorched lives of traders, sailors, and islanders scattered across the remote atolls of the Pacific. Louis Becke draws on his own years of firsthand experience in Micronesia and Polynesia to craft vivid, unsentimental tales that pulse with authenticity and moral ambiguity. Each story presents a world where colonial commerce, indigenous culture, and human desire collide under tropical skies, rendered in prose that is both lyrical and unflinching. Published in 1894, the collection established Becke as a singular voice in adventure literature, earning comparisons to Robert Louis Stevenson for its atmospheric intensity and its honest portrayal of life at the edges of the known world. Readers drawn to maritime adventure and the literature of the Pacific will find in these pages a gripping and historically rich portrait of a vanishing frontier.