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A Beachcomber in the Orient |
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By Harry L. Foster
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"Harry L. Foster, author of The Adventures of a Tropical Tramp, has evidently not mastered the technique of tramping, for he carries luggage and has it stolen.
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White Shadows in the South Seas |
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By Frederick O'Brien
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"A glowing narrative of life among the natives of the Marquesas island of Hiva-oa, an earthly paradise of palm trees, white beaches, and orchids in the moonlight."
--ABCC Books
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The Confessions of a Beachcomber |
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By E.J. Banfield
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". . . fascinating autobiography . . . especially recommended reading for any one who has ever felt like chucking so-called 'modern life' and returning to a simpler, more basic existence in harmony with the environment and all that nature has to offer the contemplative life."
--Midwest Book Review
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The Adventures of a Tropical Tramp |
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By Harry L. Foster
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"The Adventures of a Tropical Tramp is fascinating reading and we can only hope for future volumes detailing his later itinerant travels to far away places and foreign climes."
--The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
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The Adventures of a Tropical Tramp is the first travel narrative written by Harry La Tourette Foster, a veteran of World War One who really couldn't "go back down on the farm" after he had seen Parie. Gripped by a impulse to adventure, Foster spent most of his life after the war wandering the main roads and back roads of the world, first in Mexico and South America, then later in Asia, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean.
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By E.J. Banfield
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Born in Liverpool, England in 1852, Edmund James Banfield moved to Ararat, Victoria in Australia when he was just two. His father established a local newspaper, the Ararat Advertiser, and as a young man "Ted" followed in the journalistic tradition first as a reporter for his father, then later in Melbourne and Sydney, but was delighted to take a post in more remote Queensland at the Townsville Daily Bulletin.
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