The Sea and the Jungle (World Digital Library Edition) (PDF)
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When Major Tomlinson embarked on the Steamship Capella, the long and arduous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and up the Amazon River provided him the personal stories to draw upon in The Sea and the Jungle. As boredom set in, Tomlinson spoke with the...
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When Major Tomlinson embarked on the Steamship Capella, the long and arduous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and up the Amazon River provided him the personal stories to draw upon in The Sea and the Jungle. As boredom set in, Tomlinson spoke with the sailors and recorded the hardships they endured as they braved the ferocious winter storms in the Northern Atlantic. Finally, after weeks of boundless water, he greeted the sighting of the South American coastline with a mixture of relief and a dark sense of foreboding in the face of oppressive heat, exotic diseases, hostile natives, and dangerous animals.While his personal acquaintance Joseph Conrad viewed the jungles through the lens of the dark side of the human psyche, Tomlinson shows real curiosity in the oceans and lands he saw despite his uneasiness. Though a rather reluctant traveler, his evocative travelogue gives insight into the journey the S.S. Capella took to deliver materials for the building of the Madeira-Mamore railroad in Brazil, one of the most difficult engineering projects of its time.
Autoren-Porträt von H. M. Tomlinson
Tomlinson was born in 1873 in Wanstead, Essex, and spent most of his youth in Poplar, a London shipping parish. Like George Bernard Shaw before him, he rose to a position of eminence in the literary world without the aid of formal education, financial means or powerful supporters. After a few miserable years as a shipping clerk, he landed his first job as a reporter for The Morning Leader, a radical halfpenny paper. After the outbreak of World War I, he was appointed official war correspondent of the British troops in Belgium for The Daily News and The Times, and in 1917 became associate editor of The Nation. While he maintained a radically pacifist attitude during and after World War I, he joined the British propaganda effort after Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, trying to convince America to side with the Allied Forces. After the war, he continued as a writer of historical novels, with varying success. Tomlinson died in London on February 5, 1958, at the age of eighty-four.
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- Autor: H. M. Tomlinson
- 2002, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 059408928X
- ISBN-13: 9780594089285
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2002
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