Fourteen Stories of Love, Hate, and the Clash of Cultures

New ebook edition of By Reef & Palm by Louis Becke.

"Who do you think is the best writer about the Pacific?" wrote James Michener and A. Grove Day in Rascals in Paradise. Their conclusion: The only correct answer was Louis Becke. "Almost without fail," they wrote, "people who know the Pacific will choose as their favorite author Louis Becke. And equally without fail, those who do not know the great ocean will not have heard of Becke."

Beckes first collection of stories, By Reef and Palm, is now available in a handy ebook version. Reprinted by Dixon-Price Publishing, Kingston, Wash., the 14 stories in the collection give a vivid picture of the clash of native and European cultures and values as the great ocean opened to trade and colonization in the 19th century.

A man who had lived his stories, the former traders first tales were more "yarns" than traditional literary works, but they conveyed the raw realities of the era with a bluntness seldom encountered in other works on the Pacific.

To review this new ebook, contact dixonpr@dixonprice.com . More information about the book and Becke is available at http://www.dixonprice.com/Reef&Palm.htm .

By Reef and Palm
Author: Louis Becke
Publisher: Dixon-Price Publishing
108 pages, 577KB, pdf ebook, $4.99