australia
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An American Angler in Australia – ebook
Zane Grey
Australia recalls the images of the Great Barrier Reef, large white sharks, huge crocodiles and friendly people. Zane Gray was fishing and fishing everywhere, but he was often delighted with the Pacific Ocean, especially around Australia and New Zealand. Most of the fish caught by American fishermen in Australia are sharks (large white, tiger, even a few slopes!).Data dostępności:
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On the Wallaby – ebook
Guy Boothby
A prolific Australian novelist, Guy Boothby was noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. In 1894 he published On the Wallaby; or, Through the East and Across Australia, an account of the travels of himself and his brother, including a description of their journey across Australia from Cooktown to Adelaide. He wrote over 50 books over the course of...Data dostępności:
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The Marriage of Esther – ebook
Guy Boothby
The Marriage of Esther, surrounded by a messy community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, combines the best qualities of a classic action-adventure film with an ingeniously crafted riddle – and right in the middle of all this is a heartbreaking novel.Data dostępności:
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The Green Pearl – ebook
Aidan de Brune
„The Green Pearl” (1930) is the second adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. This second story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end (gravity powered aircraft without engines...) and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine:...Data dostępności:
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The Shadow Crook – ebook
Aidan de Brune
Aidan de Brune has been described as the Edgar Wallace of Australia. De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. His latest novel, „The Shadow Crook,” certainly justifies the claim. It is an amazing story of a master criminal who terrorized Sydney, taunted the police, and baffled the finger-print experts. „The Shadow Crook” raided the detective offices in Sydney, bound and gagged...Data dostępności:
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The Wilderness Trek – ebook
Zane Grey
Zane Grey’s big Australian novel. American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Through the eyes of two cowboys, Australia comes alive for the reader – the flora, the fauna, the heat, the dust, the water, or lack...Data dostępności:
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Traces of Crime – ebook
Mary Fortune
This is an exciting detective story. A detective tracks down a suspect in an assault and rape at the Chinaman’s Flat gold mines in Australia, hoping to gather enough evidence to convict the man. A detective goes undercover as a prospector and observes strange behavior. Can this detective get to his man, or will the murder change everything?Data dostępności:
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The Mystery of the Clasped Hands – ebook
Guy Boothby
Australia-born writer Guy Newell Boothby burst onto the literary scene with a series of best-selling adventure action movies, but The Mystery of Clasped Hands discovers that Boothby is trying to try his hand at classic detective fiction. Fans of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle will love this exciting mystery.Data dostępności:
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In Search of the Castaways – ebook
Jules Verne
„Children of Captain Grant” is one of the best novels of the outstanding French writer Jules Verne, a wonderful example of a classic work of youthful literature. From the book, the reader learns about the amazing adventures that occurred with the heroes of the novel during their extraordinary journeys in South America, Australia and other places where they find themselves in search of Captain Gran...Data dostępności:
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Murder in Four Degrees – ebook
J.S. Fletcher
Elderly John Marbury, who came from faraway Australia the day before, was killed in central London. But who could wish death to a man who had not been in England for a long time? Investigation investigator Detective Rasbery turns for help to his friend, crime reporter Frank Spargo. Soon they learn that shortly before the death of Marbury, he met with MP Aylmore.Data dostępności:
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