Michael Scott

The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. I-II) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: I had no small difficulty in carrying this point, as the extreme insalubrity of the climate, the chance of being plundered by the semi-piratical foreign slavers, to say nothing of the danger of a treacherous attack on the part of the natives themselves, weighed heavily against my going in my worthy uncle's mind; but I had set my heart on it, and where there's a will, there's a way. I will not conceal, however, that after all, when it came to the point, I do not believe he would have allowed me to depart, had it not been for a prank of mine, which put him into a towering passion with me about this time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 539
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783962723873
• Artikelnr.: 53700251

Autorenporträt

Michael Scott (30 October 1789 ¿ 7 November 1835) was a Scottish author and autobiographer who wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cringle. Scott was born in Scotland at Cowlairs, near Glasgow, the son of a Glasgow merchant. In 1806 he went to Jamaica, first managing some estates, and afterwards joining a business firm in Kingston. The latter post necessitated his making frequent journeys, on the incidents of which he based his best known book, "Tom Cringle's Log". In 1822 he left Jamaica and settled in Glasgow, where he engaged in business. "Tom Cringle's Log" began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829. Scott's second story, The Cruise of the Midge, was also first published serially in Blackwood's in 1834¿1835. The first appearance in book-form of each story was in Paris in 1834. Both stories - "interesting autobiographical portraits of Jamaica in the 1820s, written by a perceptive and sympathetic, but transient observer" - were originally published anonymously, and their authorship was not known till after Scott's death at Glasgow. Craig Lamont has placed Michael Scott within a 'Glasgow School' of early nineteenth century Scottish novelists, along with John Galt and Thomas Hamilton. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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