Nisan Island : A Tale of the Old Trading Days single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1908... 1908 Nisan Island : A Tale of the Old Trading Days
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A ship's captain returns to an island in the Solomons to avenge the massacre of a party of his crew members. The mission is assisted by a crew member who survived the massacre and has been held captive by the village chief.

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    y separately published work icon The Call of the South Louis Becke , London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1908 Z325514 1908 single work non-fiction autobiography A description of the narrator's wanderings around Australia and the South Pacific. Much of the material appears to be autobiographical and he also relates a number of tales that were told to him during his travels. London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1908 pg. 33 - 60
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