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By Reef and Palm, a collection of short stories, established Becke's literary reputation. In all he published over 30 books including short stories, novels, biography and reminiscences.

In the introduction to By Reef and Palm (included in the ebook) the Earl of Pembroke wrote of Becke, "born at Port Macquarrie in Australia, where his father was clerk of petty sessions, he was seized at the age of fourteen with an intense longing to go to sea." Pembroke went on to say that "every one who has a taste for good stories will feel, I believe, the force of these. Every one who knows the South Seas, and, I believe, many who do not, will feel that they have the unmistakable stamp of truth."

The introduction to By Reef and Palm provides a brief biography of Becke's life and an outline of the stories.

Read ebooks by Louis Becke:

• By Reef and Palm and Other Stories--from Freeread
• Short Stories--Text--ZIP
• By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore and other stories--from Freeread
• The Naval Pioneers of Australia--from Freeread
• Pacific Tales (1897)--Text--ZIP--HTML
• The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island--Text--ZIP--HTML
• Edward Barry: South Sea Pearler--from Freeread
• Yorke The Adventurer--from Freeread
• John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish--from Freeread
• The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia--from Freeread
• "Old Mary"--from Freeread
• "Martin of Nitendi"; and The River of Dreams--from Freeread
• "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging in The Pacific--from Freeread
  
• "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging in The Pacific--from Freeread
• Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories--from Freeread
• John Frewen, South Sea Whaler--from Freeread
• A Memory of the Southern Seas--from Freeread
• Rídan the Devil and Other Stories--from Freeread
• Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories--from Freeread
• The Trader's Wife--from Freeread
• Tessa--from Freeread
  

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Updated 4 May 2008