Title The adventures of Louis de Rougemont / as told by himself ; with forty-six illustrations

Published London : George Newnes, 1899

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ADPML SPC	919.4 Rou		LIB USE ONLY

Description xx, 396 pages 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 19cm Series Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books. ANL Summary 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 A fictitious account of 'thirty years among the cannibals of unexplored Australia.' Louis de Rougemont is the pseudonym of Henri Louis Grin Subject Grin, Henry Louis, 1847-1921 Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848 -- Travel -- Australia, Northern. Rougemont, Louis de, 1847-1921. Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Northern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. Adventure and adventurers -- Australia. Adventure stories, Australian. SUBJECT Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473 Australia -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 -- Anecdotes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294 Australia -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 Australia, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010749 -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Voyages, Imaginary. Fiction. Anecdotes. Author Pearse, Alfred, 1855-1933.

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