THE CONFESSIONS OF A BEACHCOMBER - Couverture rigide

BANFIELD, E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0855582200 ISBN 13 : 9780855582203

Editeur : Lloyd O'Neil, 1974

Synopsis

One of the early seekers of an 'alternative life-style', Banfield, accompanied by his wife, retired from the complexities of town life for the 'careless quiet, the calm, the refreshment of the whole air, the tonic of the wide sea'. Leaving Townsville, they set out to try the 'simple life' on Dunk Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of northern Queensland. "The Confessions of a Beachcomber" is the description of life on a 'real tropic island, where Romance and Reality met and were blended'. Its publication, in 1908, caused a great stir; aroused by the freshness and vividness of the story, reviewers and readers cried out that they, too, wished to go 'a-Dunking', to share in the charms of the simple life. This is a 'classic of Australian natural history' - through Banfield's vigorous and enthusiastic account of the tropical scenery, plants, animals and Aboriginals of Dunk Island, runs a perceptive delight in this island 'far from the haunts of men'.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Does the fact that a weak mortal sought an unprofaned sanctuary — an island removed from the haunts of men — and there dwelt in tranquillity, happiness and security, represent any just occasion for the relation of his experiences — experiences necessarily out of the common? To this proposition it will be for these pages to find answer. 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?

Présentation de l'éditeur

"The Confessions of a Beachcomber" from Edmund James Banfield. Author and naturalist (1852-1923).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lloyd O'Neil
• Date d'édition: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0855582200
• ISBN 13: 9780855582203
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible