Ernest Favenc 
Tales of the Austral Tropics 

In these ‘Tales of the Austral Tropics’ will be found the strange romances which write themselves, often in letters of blood, amid the half-unknown, mysterious regions of Tropical Australia.That they are not less true than terrible, I take it upon myself to affirm. That such is far from being the case with the larger proportion of literary manufacture professing to describe Australian life and character, I most distinctly assert.’Those who know seldom write, and those who write don’t know, ‘ remarks the veteran colonist with accentuated emphasis. But this author’s name is a household word among bushmen and bookmen from Albany to Thursday Island, from ‘The Gulf’ to the Snowy River.