The adventures of Louis de Rougemont / as told by himself ; with forty-six illustrations
- Bib ID:
- 470720
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rougemont, Louis de, 1847-1921
- Description:
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- London : George Newnes, 1899
- xx, 396 p. [11] leaves of plates : Ill., port. ; 19cm.
- Series:
- Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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This work created a world sensation. The author recounts his early life, his education and his coming to Australia. The adventures were vouched for as fact, but as narrated they are beyond the bounds of credibility. After being shipwrecked in the Arafura Sea, he reaches Australia and marries the woman 'Yamba'. He spends nearly 30 years among the Aborigines of Northern and N-W Australia. The author, born in Switzerland in 1844, has been called the modern 'Munchausen' and this work has been compared to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
- Notes:
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- A fictitious account of 'thirty years among the cannibals of unexplored Australia.'
- Louis de Rougemont is the pseudonym of Henri Louis Grin.
- Cited In:
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- BM, 208:69
- cf. Miller, E.M. Australian lit., II,678
- Muir, M. A bibliography of Australian children's books, 1995
- NUC pre-1956, 219:204
- Subject:
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- Grin, Henry Louis, 1847-1921
- Rougemont, Louis de, 1847-1921
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Australia
- Adventure stories, Australian
- Voyages, Imaginary
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Cannibalism
- Australia -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
- Australia -- Description and travel -- 1851-1900 -- Fiction
- East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52)
- Cambridge Gulf (WA East Kimberley SD52-10)
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Muir, Marcie. Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1921
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1899
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