- H. M. Tomlinson
Henry Major Tomlinson (
21 June 1873 –5 February 1958 ) was a British writer andjournalist . He was known for anti-war andtravel writing , novels and short stories, especially of life at sea.He was brought up in
Poplar, London . He worked as a shipping clerk, and then as a reporter for the "Morning Leader" newspaper; he travelled up theAmazon River for it.In
World War I he was an official correspondent for theBritish Army , inFrance . In 1917 he returned to work withH. W. Massingham on "The Nation", which opposed the war. He left the paper in 1923, when Massingham resigned because of a change of owner and political line.Works
* The Sea and the Jungle. Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brazils (1912)
* Old Junk (1918) stories
*London River (1921) revised 1951
*Waiting for Daylight (1922)
*Tidemarks: Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923 (1924)
*Gifts of Fortune With Some Hints For Those About to Travel (1926)
*Under the Red Ensign (1926)
*Gallions Reach (1927) novel
*Out Of Soundings (1928)
*A Brown Owl (1928)
*Illusion: 1915 (1928)
*Thomas Hardy (1929)
*Cote d'Or (1929)
*Between the Lines (1930)
*War Books. A Lecture Given at Manchester University February 15, 1929 (1930)
*All Our Yesterdays (1930)
*The Sky's the Limit (1930)
*Great Sea Stories of All Nations (1930) editor
*Best Short Stories Of the War (1931) editor
*Norman Douglas (1931)
*An Illustrated Catalogue of Rare Books on the East Indies and A Letter to a Friend (1932)
*The Snows of Helicon (1933)
*South to Cadiz (1934)
*Below London Bridge (1934)
*Mars His Idiot (1935)
*R.M.S. "Queen Mary". A noble tribute to the imagination of man (1935) with E.P. Leigh-Bennett
*Pipe All Hands (1937) novel
*The Day Before: A Romatic Chronicle (1939)
*Modern Travel (1939) editor, anthology
*Ports of Call (1939) in "The Queen's Book of the Red Cross "
*The Wind is Rising. The war diary of H.M.Tomlinson and a vision of all our tomorrows (1941)
*The Turn of the Tide (1945)
*Morning Light: The Islanders in the Days of Oak and Hemp (1946)
*Malay waters. the story of little ships coasting out of Singapore and Penang in peace and war (1950)
*The Face of the Earth (1950)
*The Haunted Forest (1951)
*A Mingled Yarn: Autobiographical Sketches (1953)
*H.M. Tomlinson: a Selection from His Writings (1953) edited byKenneth Hopkins
*The Trumpet Shall Sound (1957)External links
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*ria|40|The Sea and the Jungle
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jtomlinson.htm Spartacus page]
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/hmt/seaj.htm "The Sea and the Jungle"]
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