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Ambrose Pratt Ambrose Pratt i(A2172 works by) (a.k.a. Ambrose Goddard Hesketh Pratt)
Born: Established: 31 Aug 1874 Forbes, Forbes area, Parkes - Forbes area, Central West NSW, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 13 Apr 1944 Surrey Hills, Box Hill - Burwood area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Sidney Myer : A Biography Ambrose Pratt , Melbourne : Quartet Books , 1978 Z1240388 1978 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Handmaids of the Sun Ambrose Pratt , Melbourne : Robertson and Mullens , 1944 Z952110 1944 single work autobiography
1 1 y separately published work icon Point in Time Ambrose Pratt , 1941 (Manuscript version)x401504 Z1240939 1941 single work drama 'Attempts to interpret contemporary Chinese thought to an Australian audience' (Diane Langmore, ADB v.11)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Call of the Koala Ambrose Pratt , Melbourne : Robertson and Mullens , 1937 Z1747448 1937 single work non-fiction
1 8 y separately published work icon Lift Up Your Eyes Ambrose Pratt , Melbourne : Robertson and Mullens , 1935 Z452002 1935 single work novel In 1933, two years before he published Lift Up Your Eyes, Pratt founded the League of Youth of Australia, a society dedicated to the 'protection and preservation of the flora and fauna of Australia' and 'the development of ideals of citizenship in the minds of young Australians'. The latter aspiration is reflected in the novel.

In Journeys of an Amateur Orientalist Paul Battersby further claims that Lift Up Your Eyes is a semi-autobiographical (p.174). Graham Stone is less complimentary, writing in Notes on Australian Science Fiction: 'Alleged to be a utopia' the book is 'actually one of those mushheaded religious concoctions about reforming society by the effotts of a band of eager beavers' (p.123).
1 y separately published work icon Everyman i "To every man his ship of dreams", Ambrose Pratt , Melbourne : Specialty Press , 1933 Z1017504 1933 single work poetry
1 4 y separately published work icon Magical Malaya Ambrose Pratt , Melbourne : Robertson and Mullens , 1931 Z1240439 1931 single work prose travel
2 1 y separately published work icon War in the Pacific Ambrose Pratt , Melbourne : Critchley Parker , 1914 Z1240630 1914 single work novel

Abstract taken from 'Some New Novels' (The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) 9 Jan 1915: 8. Web. 9 Jul 2014 (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15544987).

Mr. Ambrose Pratt has struck while the iron is hot. Since war broke out there have been more sensational doings in the South Seas than any described by R. L. Stevenson or Louis Becke, and in "War in the Pacific" Mr. Pratt has turned these to good account. The story opens in Upolu, not long before it ceased to be a German possession. A handful of Britons seize time by the forelock and endeavour to escape. Among thom Is one Harrington, an ex-surgeon of the navy, who is responsible for the story of their various vicissitudes. Before they get far on their journey they are overtaken by a German tramp which has been converted into an auxiliary cruiser. They are treated with the utmost brutality, though Harrington's professional knowledge secures him better entertainment than his friends receive. They are taken to a secret naval base somewhere in the Carolines, where they are condemned to work on the plantations. Meanwhile Harrington still continues his enforced pilgrimage until the Brandenburg is blown up by a mine. He alone escapes, passes himself off as a German-American who has volunteered for service in the cause of the Fatherland; has a glimpse of the capture of Herbertshohe, and, finally returning to "X-Motu," as a sort of scullion on a German collier, repays with interest all that he and his companions have suffered. Incidentally he avenges the wrongs done to his wife, a beautiful half-caste from the islands. Six months ago we should have said that the story was wildly improbable, but since then so many "Impossible" things have happened that one hesltates to apply the adjective to anything. Harrington's adventures hold the reader from beginning to end, and he himself Is drawn with an attention to characterisation which does not usually fall to the lot of a hero of a novel of incident. (Crltchley Parker.)

3 y separately published work icon Her Assigned Husband : A Tale of the Convict System, Founded on Fact Ambrose Pratt , 1914 single work novel historical fiction
2 The Mysterious Investment : A Tale of London and St Petersburg Ambrose Pratt , 1914 single work novella
1 2 y separately published work icon The Golden Kangaroo Ambrose Pratt , Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Company , 1913 Z564208 1913 single work novel
1 2 y separately published work icon Wolaroi's Cup Ambrose Pratt , Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Company , 1913 Z564100 1913 single work novel
3 y separately published work icon A Daughter of the Bush Ambrose Pratt , 1912 1912 single work novel
1 The Iron Hand Ambrose Pratt , 1911 single work short story horror
— Appears in: The Lady's Realm , vol. 30 no. 1911; (p. 167-171)
1 y separately published work icon Karoola Ambrose Pratt , Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Company , 1911 Z1241274 1911 single work novel
3 1 y separately published work icon Dan Kelly, Outlaw : Being the Memoirs of Daniel Kelly, Brother of Edward Kelly, Leader of the Kelly Gang of Bushrangers, Supposed to Have Been Slain in the Famous Fight at Glenrowan Ambrose Pratt , 1911 single work novel
2 1 y separately published work icon The Outlaws of Weddin Range Ambrose Pratt , Sydney : N.S.W. Bookstall Company , 1911 Z112293 1911 single work novel
1 Poetic Justice Ambrose Pratt , 1910 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lone Hand , 1 April vol. 6 no. 36 1910; (p. 617)
1 The Red Flag Ambrose Pratt , 1910 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lady's Realm , vol. 28 no. 1910; (p. 163-171)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Living Mummy Ambrose Pratt , New York (City) : Frederick A. Stokes , 1910 Z1240430 1910 single work novel
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