Author(s): Louis Becke, A. Grove Day(ed.)

Pacific Islands | Secondhand

Secondhand.

This book is a collection of tales by Louis Becke,the master of south sea tales.All of the tales in this book contain stories of Tom Denision(the supercargo)who by the way is Becke's alterego.Becke traveled the waters of the south pacific with Bully Hayes,a notorious scoundrel and sometimes pirate.They get into one mess after another.

"The best writer of tales of the South Seas of the past century - a man hailed as the "Rudyard Kipling of the Pacific', praised by Mark Twain, and compared with Robert Louis Stevenson and Herman Melville - was Louis Becke.

Near fine. Light edge-wear to the dust jacket.Inscription on the front endpaper.