The Clyde
River and Firth
For this, one of a series of illustrated volumes, first published in 1907, Neil Munro (1863-1930) was surely the ideal choice of author with his versatility as historical novelist and journalist. Born and bred in Inveraray, he spent years on the Glasgow Evening News, contributing two well-loved columns that envious colleagues would describe as having the Munro touch. Para Handy made his first casual appearance in those pages. This book is a rich storehouse of facts geographical and historical, but it too shows the Munro touch. We feel his joie de vivre and his innate love of his own corner of the world as he accompanies us fro…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84530-084-5
- EAN: 9781845300845
- Produktnummer: 8860404
- Verlag: The Grimsay Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 513 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 513
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Neil Munro (1863 - 1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was a serious writer, but is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis. The best known of these stories are about the fictional Clyde puffer the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy but they also include stories about the waiter and kirk beadle Erchie MacPherson and the traveling drapery salesman Jimmy Swan. They were originally published in the Glasgow Evening News, but collections were published as books. A key figure in Scottish literary circles, Munro was a friend of the writers J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and Joseph Conrad and the artists Edward A. Hornel, George Houston, Pittendrigh MacGillivray and Robert Macaulay Stevenson. He was an early promoter of the works of both Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
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