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Alfred Searcy Alfred Searcy i(A2265 works by)
Born: Established: 4 Jan 1854 Mount Barker, Mount Barker (SA) area, Adelaide, South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 1 Oct 1925 Adelaide, South Australia,
Gender: Male
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1 Flash Poll Alfred Searcy , 1991 extract autobiography (In Northern Seas : Being Mr. Alfred Searcy's Experiences on the North Coast of Australia, as Recounted to E. Whitington)
— Appears in: North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 121-122)
Author recalls his friend 'Flash Poll', an Aboriginal woman in Port Essington.
1 Vile Liquor, 1880s Alfred Searcy , 1991 extract autobiography (In Australian Tropics)
— Appears in: North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 276)
1 Dug His Own Grave Alfred Searcy , 1991 extract novel (By Flood and Field : Adventures Ashore and Afloat in North Australia)
— Appears in: North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 122-123)
1 Out-Beyond Country Alfred Searcy , 1991 extract autobiography (In Australian Tropics)
— Appears in: North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 61-62)
1 3 y separately published work icon By Flood and Field : Adventures Ashore and Afloat in North Australia Alfred Searcy , Melbourne : George Robertson , 1911 Z499339 1911 single work novel Fictionalised autobiography.
1 1 y separately published work icon In Australian Tropics Alfred Searcy , London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner , 1907 Z483075 1907 single work autobiography In Australian Tropics is a reworking and an extension of the material originally published in In Northern Seas (Adelaide, 1905).
1 2 y separately published work icon In Northern Seas : Being Mr. Alfred Searcy's Experiences on the North Coast of Australia, as Recounted to E. Whitington Alfred Searcy , E. Whitington , Adelaide : W. K. Thomas , 1905 Z1400884 1905 single work autobiography A collection of newspaper articles about Searcy's period in the Northern Territory reprinted from The Register (South Australia). He reworked and extended the material as In Australian Tropics (London, 1907).
1 y separately published work icon A Trip to the East Alfred Searcy , 1894 1894 Z1549555 1894 single work column travel An account of the voyage of the S. S. Darwin to Batavia and Singapore.
1 A Trip to the Victoria River Alfred Searcy , 1889 single work column travel
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 4 May 1889; (p. 3)
Searcy's account of a trip as a passenger on the S. S. Victoria up the Victoria River to deliver annual supplies to stations.
1 The Trip of the S.S. 'Active' Alfred Searcy , D'Arcy Uhr , 1888 single work column travel
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 25 February 1888; (p. 3) Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 3 March 1888; (p. 3)
1 The Cruise of the 'Palmerston.' Alfred Searcy , 1885 single work column travel
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 7 March 1885; (p. 3)
An account by Alfred Searcy of a trip on the government steamer, 'Palmerston', to 'fix the sites of two townships... and to lay out a new township'.
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