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Issue Details: First known date: 1907... 1907 The Great White Chief : A Story of Adventure in Unknown New Guinea
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Miller and Macarrtney say this novel relates to 'exploring and native customs.'

Notes

  • Author's note: This is a story, but the characters are real, and the incidents not imaginary. At the present moment, the comrades round whose adventures the tale is woven, are scattered throughout our Empire's far-flung outposts. For them, crowded cities can never be abiding-places, nor the conventionalities of civilization anything but irksome....'He has not really come down to book-writing. That art requires a certain amount of trained literary skill which he does not claim to possess. He knows he cannot write a story as some of you could tell it; but those for whom this book is written will not judge his work harshly; and for others, as you know, he does not care.'
  • Dedication: To Admiral Moresby By One Who Has Followed In His Footsteps

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Blackie ,
      1907 .
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      Extent: viii, 374, [9]leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., map
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Blackie ,
      1908 .
      Link: 8503267Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: xi, 367 p., [8]leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., map
      Reprinted: 1937
      Note/s:
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2011, from the collection of the NLA.

Works about this Work

More Lost and Found : Around the World Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 146-147)

— Review of A Dream of Freedom : Romance of South America Hume Nisbet , 1902 single work novel ; The Sealed Temple Edith Mary England , 1933 single work novel ; Overdue : A Romance of Unknown New Guinea J. M. Walsh , 1925 single work novel ; Danger Mountain : A Story of Adventure in Unexplored New Guinea Robert M. MacDonald , 1911 single work children's fiction ; The Moon God's Secret : A Tale of the Tropical Pacific Robert M. MacDonald , 1910 single work children's fiction ; The Great White Chief : A Story of Adventure in Unknown New Guinea Robert M. MacDonald , 1907 single work children's fiction
More Lost and Found : Around the World Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 146-147)

— Review of A Dream of Freedom : Romance of South America Hume Nisbet , 1902 single work novel ; The Sealed Temple Edith Mary England , 1933 single work novel ; Overdue : A Romance of Unknown New Guinea J. M. Walsh , 1925 single work novel ; Danger Mountain : A Story of Adventure in Unexplored New Guinea Robert M. MacDonald , 1911 single work children's fiction ; The Moon God's Secret : A Tale of the Tropical Pacific Robert M. MacDonald , 1910 single work children's fiction ; The Great White Chief : A Story of Adventure in Unknown New Guinea Robert M. MacDonald , 1907 single work children's fiction
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