Tropic Days

Tropic Days

Edmund James Banfield, author and naturalist (1852-1923)


This ebook presents «Tropic Days», from Edmund James Banfield. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Motto

- Dedication

- Author's Note

- Part I. Sun Days

- In Idle Moment

- Eternal Sunshine

- Fragrance And Fruit

- The Scene-shifter

- Beach Plants

- Shadows

- Smiling Morn

- Ancestral Shade

- Quiet Waters

- The Lowing Herd

- Babbling Beaches

- The Lost Isle

- Part Ii. The Passing Face

- The Corroboree

- The Canoe-maker

- Two Ladies

- Maria Dances.

- Soosie

- Blue Shirt

- The Forgotten Dead

- Eagles-nest Float

- Nature In Retaliation

- Star Run About

- Blacks As Fishermen

- Hooks

- Narcotics And Poisons

- Fly-fishing

- Part Iii. Miscellanea

- Pearls

- A Pearl In The Making

- Strange Pearls

- Pearls And High Tragedy

- Snake And Frog Prattle

- The Bush Track

- The Little Brown Man

- Tropic Days

- Browning

- Time's Finger

- One Supreme Mental Tug And The Baneful Torpor Was Dispelled, And With Stiffened Legs And Bruised Hand I Began To Screw Myself Up To The Free Air Cautiously And Painfully; And There, In A Beam Of Light From The Crystal, Was The Slow-dripping Flower-bedizened Water-celestial Nectar To Parched Lips.

- The Soul Within The Stone