My Tropic Isle

by

E. J. Banfield

eBooks@Adelaide
2010

First published in 1911.

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Table of Contents

Preface
  1. In the Beginning
  2. A Plain Man’s Philosophy
  3. “Much Riches in a Little Room”
  4. Silences
  5. Fruits and Scents
  6. His Majesty the Sun
  7. A Tropic Night
  8. Reading to Music
  9. The Birth and Breaking of Christmas
  10. The Sport of Fate
  11. Fight to a Finish
  12. Sea-Worms and Sea-Cucumbers
  13. Some Marine Novelties
  14. Some Curious Bivalves
  15. Barrier Reef Crabs
  16. The Blockade of the Mullet
  17. Wet Season Days
  18. Insect Ways
  19. Intelligent Birds
  20. Swifts and Eagles
  21. Socialistic Birds
  22. Sharks and Rays
  23. The Recluse of Rattlesnake
  24. Hamed of Jeddah
  25. Young Barbarians at Play
  26. Tom and His Concerns
  27. “Debils-DEBILS”
  28. To Paradise and Back
  29. The Death Bone

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