The Boats of the Glen Carrig

by William Hope Hodgson

Overview

Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473216648
Publisher:	Orion
Publication date:	11/26/2015
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	592 KB

About the Author

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
William Hope Hodgson was an English author who produced a large body of work spanning the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. He ran away as a youth and worked at sea aboard ships. This influenced much of his later writing. His first published story was The Goddess of Death. He is also known for his Sargasso Sea Stories and novels such as The House on the Borderland and The Night Land. He died in World War I, aged 40.

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William Hope Hodgson, the son of an Essex clergyman, spent eight years at sea as a merchant seaman, sailing around the world three times and receiving the Royal Humane Society's medal for saving a life at sea. He published his first story in 1904 and his first novel, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG', IN 1907. He was killed in the First World War.