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A young woman seeks to be reunited with her former love, now a trader in the Caroline Islands, but he has reasons for refusing to reply to her letters. Their love seems doomed, until a cyclone intervenes.
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yPacific TalesLouis Becke,
London:T. Fisher Unwin,1897Z3281991897selected work short story London:T. Fisher Unwin,1897
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1897
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pg.89 - 112
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ySouth Sea SupercargoLouis Becke,
A. Grove Day
(editor),
Brisbane:Jacaranda Press,1967Z5390221967selected work short story A collection of stories, some of which feature Becke's alter ego, Tom Denison. Others are apparently based on his one-time employer in Apia, Mrs Mary Macfarlane, and the blackbirder 'Bully' Hayes, as well as other characters he encountered in his Pacific wanderings. The stories draw heavily on Becke's own experiences and certainly have autobiographical components but they are not, as Professor Day's introduction implies, autobiographical in the strictest sense of the word.Brisbane:Jacaranda Press,1967