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Rodman the Boatsteerer, and Other Stories

Louis Becke (1855–1913)

Short stories · first published 1898 · London: T. Fisher Unwin

Whalers, traders, castaways and pirates: stories of the South Seas and old Sydney.

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Louis Becke (author) died in 1913. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1963. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1898. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. RODMAN THE BOATSTEERER AND OTHER STORIES
  2. By Louis Becke
  3. London T. Fisher Unwin, 1898
  4. RODMAN THE BOATSTEERER
  5. I.
  6. II.
  7. III.
  8. A POINT OF THEOLOGY ON MÂDURÔ
  9. A MAN OF IMPULSE
  10. THE TRADER
  11. I.
  12. II.
  13. III.
  14. MRS. CLINTON
  15. I.
  16. II.
  17. THE CUTTING-OFF OF THE “QUEEN CHARLOTTE”
  18. THE PERUVIAN SLAVERS
  19. A QUESTION OF PRECEDENCE
  20. A TOUCH OF THE TAR-BRUSH
  21. THE TRADER S WIFE
  22. NINA
  23. THE EAST INDIAN COUSIN
  24. PROCTOR THE DRUNKARD
  25. A PONAPEAN CONVENANCE
  26. IN THE KING'S SERVICE, SOME EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A BEACH-COMBER
  27. I.
  28. II.
  29. III.
  30. OXLEY, THE PRIVATEERSMAN
  31. I.
  32. II.
  33. III.
  34. THE ESCAPEE
  35. EMA, THE HALF-BLOOD
  36. I.
  37. II.
  38. III.
  39. IV.
  40. LEASSÉ
  41. THE TROUBLE WITH JINABAN
  42. Palmer, one of Tom de Wolf's traders on the Matelotas

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