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Confessions of a Beachcomber extract   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1908... 1908 Confessions of a Beachcomber
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  • This is an extract from The Confessions of a Beachcomber.

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Literary Representations of the Great Barrier Reef Stephen Torre , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics , vol. 7 no. 2008; 'Over two centuries the sublime power of the Great Barrier Reef is gradually diminished in discourse, as naturalists become scientists and ecologists, as maritime navigation becomes less dangerous, as explorers became industrialists and tourists, and as poets, novelists philosophers and other imaginative thinkers and writers begin to turn their attention to exploring the beauty of the reef.'
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