"My Crowded Solitude" is a seaside adventure novel set in the South Pacific. A young man, accustomed to seafaring on the South Seas, decides to embark on an even bigger adventure. Namely to start a coconut farm on the Australian coast of Cape Victory. His plan is to convince some of the natives to help him with the labour for the farm. But when he arrives, there are no natives in sight, and he wonders if his plan will work after all...

Popular account of life on Simpson Bay, West Cape York; Physical appearance of natives; cooking of fish; Myth associated with belief that the spirit must return to sleepers body, other myths; Morality, infanticide, abortion; Corroboree, body decoration; Burial customs in detail; Tooth avulsion of female adolescents; Suckling of dingo pups by women; Basketry, smoke signals, sign language; Tribal conflict, death of mother of illegitimate children; Cooking, subject matter of songs.

The White Witch is an adventure story by Jack McLaren. McLaren was an Australian novelist who wrote novels based on his life experiences. Excerpt: "The natives nodded understandingly, for they were old hands at surf-running, and these were the pick of the village. There was a dozen of them, all young, strong men with splendid chests and big arm-muscles. Their skin was the color of old leather that had been unduly exposed to the elements, and their hair was teased out and fuzzed into the semblance of a mop. Each carried a lime-pot fashioned from a gourd. As Sherwin spoke they chewed beetlenut and conveyed the lime to their mouths by means of pieces of flat wood wetted with saliva."

Autobiography of an adventurer and broadcaster who spent eight years living in solitutude on a coconut plantation on the Cape York penninsula with Aboriginal people as his only companions.