Bertram Mitford

The Sign of the Spider

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Produktbeschreibung

The Sign of the Spider is a British adventure novel, first published in 1896. Bertram Mitford creates an anti-hero as protagonist and weaving throughout the story a deliberate look at racial attitudes and cultural differences within colonial- Africa. The arachnid-beast in the climax of the story is am amazing character. The first part of the book is a romance while the latter part is a fun action/adventure story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781438530079
• ISBN-10: 1438530072
• Artikelnr.: 27964924

Autorenporträt

Bertram Mitford FRGS (13 June 1855-4 October 1914) was a colonial writer, novelist, essayist, and cultural critic who published forty-four books, the majority of which were set in South Africa. He was a contemporary of H Rider Haggard. He was a Mitford family member and the third son of Edward Ledwich Osbaldeston Mitford (1811-1912). In 1895, he became the 31st Lord of the Manor of Mitford, succeeding his brother Colonel John Philip Osbaldeston Mitford. He died in 1912 at Mitford Hall in Northumberland. Bertram Mitford was born in Bath in 1855, educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex, traveled to southern Africa in 1874, lived in Cheltenham in 1881, married Zima Helen Gentle, daughter of Alfred Ebden, on March 9, 1886 in Brighton, had daughter Yseulte Helen on June 3, 1887 (died July 1969), son Roland Bertram on June 17, 1891 (died April 16, 1932), lived in London in 1891, and died of liver disease in 1914 in Cowfold, Sussex. He belonged to four London clubs: The Junior Athenaeum, Savage, the New Vagabond, and the Wigwam.