William McFee (1881–1966)
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Watch below; a reconstruction in narrative form of the golden age of steam when coal took the place of wind and the… (1940) 7 exemplar
No castle in Spain 7 exemplar
Letters from an ocean tramp 4 exemplar
Stories of the Sea — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
The Captain Macedoine cocktail 2 exemplar
Race 2 exemplar
A six-hour shift 2 exemplar
The reflections of Marsyas 2 exemplar
Five volume set; Command, Harbours of Memory, Miore Harbours of Memory, The Harbourmaster, Casuals of the Sea, The… (1935) 1 exemplar
"The Port of Lonely Men" 1 exemplar
Life of Sir Martin Frobisher, The 1 exemplar
An Engineer's Notebook 1 exemplar
Merchant Marine and the Young Fellow, The 1 exemplar
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Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1881-06-15
- Avled
- 1966-07-02
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- England
UK - Bostadsorter
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
London, England, UK - Utbildning
- Culford School, Suffolk, England
- Yrken
- engineer (mechanical)
mariner - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1941)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 42
- Även av
- 9
- Medlemmar
- 246
- Popularitet
- #92,613
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 2
- ISBN
- 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.… (mer)