The Confessions of a Beachcomber: Scenes and Incidents in the Career of an Unprofessional Beachcomber in Tropical Queensland

Edmund James Banfield

T. F. Unwin, 1908 - Dunk Island (Qld.) - 336 pages

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Review: Confessions of a Beachcomber

User Review  - Deborah Mantle - Goodreads

I read this as background for my next novel to be set in north-east Australia. At the beginning of the 20th century, EJ Banfield, along with his wife, chose to move to a small island (Dunk Island) off ...

Review: Confessions of a Beachcomber

User Review  - Steve - Goodreads

One of my favourites. A bloke living in Townsville is told he is going to die, so goes to Dunk Island and lives for another 20 years. How to live a simple life and my dream job, beachcomber.

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 7
• Our Island: 14
• Early History: 24
• Satellites and Neighbours: 30
• Plans and Performances: 41
• CHAPTER II: 53
• Tropical Industries: 66
• Some Differences: 76
• Island Fauna: 87
• A Census: 94
• The Daybreak Fugue: 99
• GoBIDGERROO: 105
• White Nutmeg Pigeon: 114
• Fruit Eaters: 120
• Casual and Unprecise: 127
• Queer Fish: 140
• burraree: 145
• Sharks and Skippers: 151
• Turtle Generally: 157
• The Mermaid of Today: 162
• BeCHEDEMER: 167
• Singlehandedness: 173
• The Serpent Beguiled: 180
• The Arabs Precept: 186
• The Conquering Tree: 197
• The UmbrellaTree: 205
• Mauve Green and Grey: 212
• CHAPTER VII: 219
• Acts Well its Part: 223
• Wooing with Wings: 231
• CHAPTER I: 237
• Turtle and Suckers: 239
• AKummaorie: 246
• Black Art: 253
• A Poisonous Food 259: 259
• Hooks of Pearl: 266
• Wild Dynamite: 269
• A Soulful Dance: 273
• Disappearance of Blacks: 279
• Otherwise Mickie: 287
• His Wives His Battles: 291
• In Life and in Death: 298
• The Language Test: 303
• Clothing Superfluous: 308
• Smoke Signals: 311
• Yankee Charley: 316
• Honour and Glory: 318
• Lauras Traits: 322
• Strategy: 326
• Honourable Chastisement: 332

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Confessions of a Beachcomber: Scenes and Incidents in the Career of an Unprofessional Beachcomber in Tropical Queensland; The Modern travel series
• Author: Edmund James Banfield
• Publisher: T. F. Unwin, 1908
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Dec 28, 2007
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Dunk Island (Qld.); Natural history