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(0)H. M Tomlinson
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"Suppose you were a quiet, respectable, sedentary business or professional man, and the captain of a tramp steamer bound to South America and up the Amazon suddenly dropped into your peaceful office, invited you to go along with him, got your acceptance by a clever trick, and had you at sea before you could stop to think-wouldn't you expect to find 'something doing'?" Thus begins this classic of travel literature, in which a London journalist sets...
2) London River
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London River is an entertaining and edifying collection of eleven essays about life on London's Thames River and the importance of the river to the people of London. The first book Tomlinson wrote after World War I, it is a guided tour of the Thames-a volume exquisite with meditation and invaluable reading.
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H. M. Tomlinson was a war correspondent for the British army in France during World War I, an experience that made him fervently anti-war. Waiting for Daylight, published shortly after World War I, is a memorable and penetrating collection of essays about his experiences during the war and his reactions to modern warfare.
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A spellbinding travel book, The Sea and the Jungle is an account of the author's journey on the tramp steamer Capella-which was bringing supplies to a railroad construction site-on the Amazon and Madeira rivers. Tomlinson's experiences on the trip and his stories about the events at the construction site are the stuff of true adventure; it was hailed as an instant classic.