Russell’s stories are set in the far places of the Pacific, the tropics and the river-mouths where Western law gives out. A raft slips out of a swampy estuary carrying a hunted man and three islanders, a beachcomber meets a lost god, and traders, planters and castaways learn what they are made of among the reefs and headhunters.
Tight, ironic adventure tales in the line of Conrad and Maugham, with the colonial outlook of 1919. Download the free EPUB.