E.J. Banfield. CLASSICS
Banfield and his wife moved to Australia’s Duck Island, off the Queensland coast. while he was ill and hoping to improve his well-being. They lived there for another 20 years. While there he wrote Confessions of a Beachcomber (1908). The book examines the natural history of the island with descriptions of the wildlife. He followed up three years later publishing My Tropic Isle (1911).