Elusive Traveller : The Life and Writings of Andrew Wilson (1830-1881)
Elusive Traveller : The Life and Writings of Andrew Wilson (1830-1881)
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Author(s): Maier, Bernhard
ISBN No.: 9783987400841
Pages: 162
Year: 202312
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 57.96
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This is the first-ever biography of the Victorian journalist, newspaper editor and travel writer Andrew Wilson (1830-1881). Born in Bombay, he was educated in the universities of Edinburgh and Tubingen, subsequently editing various newspapers in Bombay, Karachi and Hongkong. A prolific contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, he became widely known for his book The Abode of Snow, the graphic description of a journey in the Himalaya. Based mainly on Wilson's unpublished letters to John and William Blackwood, the biography reveals a striking personality whose life and career afford fascinating glimpses of the cultural, political and religious history of 19th-century Scotland in the context of the British Empire.


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