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1 2 y separately published work icon Tropic Equations : A Tale of the South Seas Don Gordon , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z38294 1933 single work novel

A contemporary review (otherwise negative) offers the following synopsis:

IN 'Tropic Equations' (The Macquarie Head Press, Sydney, 6s net), Mr. Don Gordon has essayed a parallel between the native mind and the white. His backgrounds are New Guinea and Sydney, and he tells the story of Donald Fraser, a trader, his wife Ethel and their adventures and amours. Ethel is on a recuperative trip to Sydney and life in the Hotel Australia transforms her into something of a social butterfly. Donald pursues his gloomy path back in New Guinea, where there is Another Woman, and there is considerable hotch potch about native rites so dear to writers of tropic lands. Apparently Donald was a witch doctor in his spare time.

Source:

'An Island Story', Daily News [Perth], 20 January 1934, p.16.
1 Cartridges Don Gordon , 1931 single work short story
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 25 June 1931; (p. 6) A New Britain native who shoots pigeons for a Catholic mission priest is refused permission to marry the girl he desires. Rebelling, he saves live cartridges after each hunting trip and incites his tribe to massacre the assembled missionaries at the opening of a new church. German pursuers heading for his village are held up and many killed by the hunter, who saves the last of his cartridges for himself.
1 Primal Instinct Don Gordon , 1931 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australasian , 5 December vol. 131 no. 4326 1931; (p. 41-42)
1 y separately published work icon Echoes of the South Seas Don Gordon , London : Stockwell , 1930 Z1439880 1930 selected work poetry

According to a brief contemporary review:

Pretty little tags of verse, bringing to mind the call of the mystic South Seas, of loving and giving and the value of prayer. The writer knows his subject and gets to its heart at once. Pleasant reading, and a big help for an idle hour. It has a touch as light as a butterfly's wing.

Source

'Reviews', Freeman's Journal, 25 December 1930, p.6. (Read online via Trove.)
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