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In a series of fateful escapades threaded along the year 1891, there was a youth christened Leo, hardly twenty-three springtimes old. His youth belied the gruelling and perilous experiences he had already collected in his young life. He had been an explorer charting the extensive and capricious Atlantic, donned the mantle of a buccaneer, a forest ranger, and a coal miner in a subterranean pit, been a transient with no land to his name, and a nomad. He had drifted aimlessly through Europe and Asia, hitching rides on nondescript freight cars, successfully evading and brawling with railway officers and constables, and had lived through the bone-biting chill, the gnawing pangs of hunger, encounters with destitution and peril. Public servitude, in the form of a forty-day imprisonment, had been a part of his life too.

Although his actions bespoke a man of few words, Leo harboured a deep affection for the written word and literature. Even though the Australian Outback had yielded him no precious gems, it was these affinities that would soon earn him great wealth. He returned from his Australian expedition after a solitary year, ravaged by the brutal disease of Beriberi and the inside of his pockets void of any currency. What he bore with him though was an invaluable hoard of experiences and sights. Setting himself to the task, he started penning down tales narrating the exotic locales he had visited and the intriguing personas he had encountered. After seasons of arduous labour interlaced with bouts of hunger, he managed to find his footing. Publishers began appreciating his narratives, bringing alive the wild Australian wilderness. In no time, his name was on everyone's lips. Over the span of the next seventeen years, he brought out fifty-five books, earned and squandered a fortune worth a million dollars. He breathed his last in the year 1920.