William McFee (1881–1966)
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No castle in Spain 8 kappaletta
Watch below; a reconstruction in narrative form of the golden age of steam when coal took the place of wind and the… (1940) 7 kappaletta
Letters from an ocean tramp 4 kappaletta
Stories of the Sea — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
The Captain Macedoine cocktail 2 kappaletta
Race 2 kappaletta
A six-hour shift 2 kappaletta
The reflections of Marsyas 2 kappaletta
Five volume set; Command, Harbours of Memory, Miore Harbours of Memory, The Harbourmaster, Casuals of the Sea, The… (1935) 1 kappale
"The Port of Lonely Men" 1 kappale
Life of Sir Martin Frobisher, The 1 kappale
An Engineer's Notebook 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1881-06-15
- Kuolinaika
- 1966-07-02
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- England
UK - Asuinpaikat
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
London, England, UK - Koulutus
- Culford School, Suffolk, England
- Ammatit
- engineer (mechanical)
mariner - Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1941)
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- Jäseniä
- 246
- Suosituimmuussija
- #92,613
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- 3.9
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- 2
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- 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.… (lisätietoja)