In Strange Company: a story of Chili and the southern seas (1894) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby.

It is a good example of a class of work growing common enough of late when life in the open air and the stir of conflict are preferred to hysterical, drawing-room emotion and unholy passion.

"[2] Continuing that approach, a reviewer in The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) found some worth in the book: "In Strange Company is a rattling story of adventure, in the course of which the reader is carried from the Isle of Wight to London, thence to the Argentine Republic, from there to Chili, then to Tahiti, Thursday Island; Batavia, and back to London where the tale finishes.

Mr. Boothby tells his story vividly and stirringly, and if he fills it with incredible incidents he does not annoy the reader by fine-spun attempts to give an air of strict truth and literal accuracy to every turn of his narrative.

The beauty of the southern seas has evidently touched Mr. Boothby closely, and at times he gives a distinct impression of the islands of the Pacific in a few crisp sentences.