The ebbing of the tide
Subtitle: South Sea stories
By: by Louis Becke
Contributors: Jack Harris Samuels Library
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Fiction; Description and travel
Notes: Rare Book copy: With a photograph of the author inscribed to Richard Whiteing and mounted on the inside front cover.

Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels
Table of contents: title: "Luliban of the pool."; title: Ninia.; title: Baldwin's Loisé.; title: At a kava-drinking.; title: Mrs. Liardet: a South Sea trading episode.; title: Kennedy the boat-steerer.; title: A dead loss.; title: Hickson: a half-caste.; title: A boating party of two.; title: "The best asset in a fool's estate."; title: Deschard of Oneaka.; title: Nell of Mulliner's camp.; title: Auriki Reef.; title: At the ebbing of the tide.; title: The fallacies of Hilliard.; title: A tale of a mask.; title: The cook of the "Spreetoo Santoo".; title: Lupton's guest: a memory of the eastern Pacific.; title: In Noumea.; title: The feast at Pentecost.; title: An honour to the service.