Edmund James Banfield
Edmund James Banfield is a Journaliste and a Australian writer of British origin , born the September 4th 1852 with Liverpool and dead the June 5th 1923 with Dunk Island.
His/her father settles in Australia with Ararat when it was very young. After having worked in several newspapers of the three colonies of the east of Australia, it goes in 1882 in the north of the Queensland where it works as journalist for the Townsville Daily Bulletin until in 1897. It Marie in 1886. Mow of its work conditions, it is withdrawn with his wife with Dunk Island where it is devoted to the writing.
Some works
- The Confessions off has Beachcomber: incidental scenes and in the career off year unprofessional beachcomber in tropical Queensland (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1908) - This book is the subject of many republications.
- My Tropic Isle (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1911, republished in 1923).
- Tropic Days (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1918).
- Last Leaves from Dunk Island (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1925) - posthumous Work.
Source
- Anthony Musgrave (1932). Bibliography off Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, with biographical notes one authors and collectors, Royal Zoological Society off News South Wales (Sydney): viii + 380.