William McFee (1881–1966)
Autor de Casuals of the Sea
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de William McFee
No castle in Spain 8 copias
Watch below; a reconstruction in narrative form of the golden age of steam when coal took the place of wind and the… (1940) 7 copias
Letters from an ocean tramp 4 copias
Stories of the Sea — Contribuidor — 4 copias
The Captain Macedoine cocktail 2 copias
Race 2 copias
A six-hour shift 2 copias
The reflections of Marsyas 2 copias
Five volume set; Command, Harbours of Memory, Miore Harbours of Memory, The Harbourmaster, Casuals of the Sea, The… (1935) 1 copia
"The Port of Lonely Men" 1 copia
An Engineer's Notebook 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1881-06-15
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1966-07-02
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugares de residencia
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
London, England, UK - Educación
- Culford School, Suffolk, England
- Ocupaciones
- engineer (mechanical)
mariner - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1941)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 42
- También por
- 9
- Miembros
- 247
- Popularidad
- #92,310
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 23
The difficulty here is that there are no accounts of Frobisher that provide information on his personality, so McFee frequently offers suppositions, surmises, and deductions to describe the character of his subject. He cannot round out his man with anecdotes or diaries or remembrances of associates, he can only give him a historical grounding in the time of Elizabeth I,and show where he was and what he was up to. McFee 's thorough knowledge of seafaring and seamanship (he was a mariner himself aboard steamships), and a crisp, unaffected style carry the book along as well as can be managed.… (más)