H. M. Tomlinson

Gallions Reach (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gallions Reach is the story of an East End shipping clerk, Jim Colet, who, in a moment of rebellion against the tyranny of dull work and a bullying employer, causes his boss's death with an unlucky blow. He escapes to sea, without any clear intention of doing so, and becomes purser on the Altair, a steamer making her way across the Indian Ocean. The Altair goes down in a tropical storm; the crew are rescued by a liner, and Colet meets a prospector who takes him on an expedition into the depths of the Malay jungle. H. M. Tomlinson subtitled his novel 'A romance', and it is in a sense a romantic version of his own life; but what makes it a classic is his marvellous power of description, and his extraordinary command of what J. B. Priestley called 'a magnificent and idiomatic prose style, as individual as a voice.

Tomlinson is one of the very small company of writers who have created classics out of their travels.

Gallions Reach was first published in 1927.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448214303
• Artikelnr.: 41009402

Autorenporträt

H. M. Tomlinson was born in Poplar, London, in 1873, the son of a foreman at the West India Dock. At the age of thirteen he became a clerk in a shipping office, but later in his life turned to journalism. It was an assignment from his editor that sent him on the first English steamer to go up the Amazon and this experience led to his critically acclaimed travel book, The Sea and the Jungle, published in 1912. During WWI Tomlinson served as a war correspondent. Many of his books drew on his experiences of war and sea adventures. He died in 1958.