Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber Classic Reprint written by E. J. Banfield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Confessions of a Beachcomber Here then I come to a point at which frankness is necessary. In these pages there will be an endeavour to refrain from egotism, and yet how may one who lives a lonesome life on an island and who presumes to write its history evade that duty? My chief desire is to set down in plain language the sobrieties of everyday occurrences - the unpretentious homilies of an unpretentious man - one whose mental bent enabled him to take but a superficial view of most of the large, heavy and important aspects of life, but who has found light in things and subjects homely, slight and casual; who perhaps has queer views on the pursuit of happiness, and who above all has an inordinate passion for freedom and fresh air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Edmund James Banfield and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile reprint of an edition first published in London in 1908. Includes the original text and all 53 original illustrations and map (some were omitted from editions and reprints since 1908). This is Banfield's story of life on Dunk Island in the early 20th century with details of the island's geography, history, flora and fauna. With an introduction by Banfield's biographer, Michael Noonan. The English-born author's other books include 'My Tropic Isle' and 'Tropic Days'.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by E. J. Banfield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Confessions of a Beachcomber: Scenes and Incidents in the Career of an Unprofessional Beachcomber in Tropical Queensland In furtherance of the desire that light may shine upon certain phases Of the character Of the Australian aboriginal, space is allotted in this book to selected anecdotes. Some are original a few have been previously honoured by print. Others have wandered, unlettered vagrants, so far and wide as to have lost all record Of legitimacy. TO these house less strangers I gladly ofi'er hospitality, and acknowledge with thankfulness their cheerful presence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Confessions of a Beachcomber written by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield Few men of their own free will seek seclusion, for does not man belong to the social vertebrates, and do not the instincts of the many rule? And when an individual is fain to acknowledge himself a variant from the type, and his characteristics or idiosyncrasies (as you will) to be so marked as to impel him to deem them sound and reasonable; when, after sedate and temperate ponderings upon all the aspects of voluntary exile as affecting his lifetime partner as well as himself, he deliberately puts himself out of communion with his fellows, does the experiment constitute him a messenger? Can there be aught of entertainment or instruction in the message he may fancy himself called upon to deliver? or, is the fancy merely another phase of the tyranny of temperament? We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Ej Banfield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by E. J. Banfield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 20th century, E. J. Banfield and his wife moved to Dunk Island for his mental and physical health. They lived there for 25 years, and the book was written after they'd been on the island for about a decade. It is an incredible island history with a comprehensive and captivating depiction of life on a tropical island in the early 1900s. It contains descriptions of flora, fauna, and lifestyle, as well as some stories about and observations of the island's original inhabitants.
Download or read book Sailor and Beachcomber Confessions of a Life at Sea in Australia and Amid the Islands of the Pacific Classic Reprint written by A. Safroni-Middleton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sailor and Beachcomber, Confessions of a Life at Sea, in Australia, and Amid the Islands of the Pacific The soul of all the songs I sing, Whatever sounds most true, I dedicate each wild true ring, Inspired, old chums, by you. The world grieves not that you are dead - Brave, reckless men who died, Crept from their camp-fires back to bed Along the wild hill-side. But, comrades, 'neath the hills or waves, Could one sad song of mine Reveal dead souls of far-off graves, 'Twould be a song divine. As pure and sweet as flowers that grow Where once with wild delight You sang, where bush-flowers, bursting, blow Thro' dead fire-ash to-night. And so in dreams I take your hands, In long-dead eyes I gaze, And half in tears from other lands Bring back the dear old days. In other lands 'neath greyer skies Wild rides again recall, Your songs, your laughing, manly eyes - The boy who loved you all. Lies in my sea-chest 'neath my bed The fiddle, stringless, still; Old chums, since all of you are dead, 'Neath forest steep and hill, I cannot play the songs you loved; But with tired eyes and pen I strive to tell the truth, who roved, And found you - God's best men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber Being a Treatise on Personal Sanctuary written by E. J. Banfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Banfield E. J. (Edmund James) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Thirty Years in Hell Or the Confessions of a Drug Fiend Classic Reprint written by D. F. Mac Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirty Years in Hell, or the Confessions of a Drug Fiend An ancient author tells us somewhere with the tone of a pedagogue, that if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read. It is a precept as beautiful as a diamond cut in England; but it cannot be applied to me, because I have written neither a novel nor the life of an illustrious character. Worthy or not, my life is my subject and my subject is my life. I have lived without dreaming that I Should take a fancy to write these confessions, and for that very reason the effort may claim from the reader an interest and a sympathy which they would not have Obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Beachcomber s Wife 16pt Large Print Edition written by Adrian Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should have been a paradise, but paradise is what you lose, it is what you might have had. An elderly woman who has lived for many years on a tropical island off the Queensland coast with her beachcomber husband waits for help from the mainland. For three harrowing days, alone. He has died, his body lies in their cabin just up from the beach, and while she awaits help she reviews her reclusive life there, of nearly 25 years with him. She is a woman with a glint in her mind's eye. The Beachcomber's Wife draws upon the published writings of E.J. Banfield, who lived an isolated life with his wife Bertha on Dunk Island through the first decades of the twentieth century. He made very little reference to her in his work (Confessions of a Beachcomber and others). This account imagines what it might have been like from her point of view. It follows Banfield's practice, of fact cemented with fiction.
Download or read book The Beachcombers Or Slave Trading Under the Union Jack Classic Reprint written by Gilbert Bishop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beachcombers, or Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack The methods adopted by Her Majesty's ships to bring the islanders to their senses and make them respect white men are touched upon in the course of the story, but they are even more forcibly illustrated by a report that appeared in the Daily News of the 3oth January, 1889 (see Appendix), which it should be observed was evidently furnished by someone engaged aboard the man of war, consequently the exploits described were not sketched by an unfriendly hand. Further comment is unnecessary; the report speaks for itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Confessions of a Quack Classic Reprint written by Thomas Patrick Bartlett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Confessions of a Quack Ralston and Clayton are types common enough in these times when honesty is only too often call e'd old fashional and scoffed at; when men wor ship mammon and place the dollar above every thing else in this world. They are quacks, not from choice, but rather from compulsion. Begin ning their professional career with ideals for dirce tion and guidance they soon learned that a too faithful adherence to ethics was keeping them at the bottom of the ladder while there was plenty of room on top. So both of them began mental 'house cleaning. They got rid of the cobwebs of obsolete and long ago beliefs and after this renovation set up business at the old stand in conformity to mod ern ideas as to what the measure of man's success is, judged by the very latest standards. Were they right or wrong? Were they justified in do ing what they did? Were they the victims of a system corrupt to the very core, shattered and tottering and ready to fall in a mighty crash? The reader must answer these questions. To the man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Riders in the Chariot written by Patrick White and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, subtle and sweeping, Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize winner's boldest books.
Download or read book A Victim to the Seal of Confession written by Joseph Spillmann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Victim to the Seal of Confession: A True Story Winter had given place to Spring; the soft breezes from the Mediterranean had already melted the light covering of snow which for a few weeks had rested on the hills and plains of sunny Prov ence, and the smiling landscape wore a garb of vernal green, to be changed, alas! Only too soon to a brown and dusty hue under the scorching rays of the summer sum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by E. J. Banfield and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No better, more human, more finely descriptive, or more enticing books have ever been written by an Australian of Australia..." -- The Sydney Mail*******"This is a wholly exceptional book . . . which has been lived, and there are not over many books like that." -- The Daily Chronicle*****America had Henry David Thoreau, James Audubon, John Burroughs, and John Muir. Australia had E.J. Banfield, the beloved Beachcomber of Dunk Island. Join Banfield as he describes his escape from hectic civilization to the simpler pleasures of a tropical paradise. A physical wreck, Banfield literally crawled onto the beach in Brammo Bay from the ship's launch that brought him to the island where he would spend the remainder of his life and would find renewed health and interest in life.A disciple of Thoreau, Banfield became a champion of species preservation, and using his pen as his sword, he eventually persuaded the Australian government to set aside Dunk Island as a protected area for wild birds of all species.During his life on the island, Banfield became a keen observer of the nature around him, and while he argues his amateur approach to the study of nature, his catalog of the island's life provides an intriguing and comprehensive look at what it means to live free on a tropical island.For modern readers, Banfield's observations remind us of an intriguing, complex, interesting, and intensely enjoyable world beyond the television screen and computer monitor.
Download or read book Australian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
