H. M. Tomlinson
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Henry Major Tomlinson was a British writer and journalist
. He was known for anti-war and travel writing
, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea.
He was brought up in Poplar, London
. He worked as a shipping clerk, and then as a reporter for the Morning Leader newspaper; he travelled up the Amazon River
for it.
In World War I
he was an official correspondent for the British Army
, in France
. In 1917 he returned to work with H. W. Massingham on The Nation, which opposed the war. He left the paper in 1923, when Massingham resigned because of a change of owner and political line.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. He was known for anti-war and travel writing
Travel writing
Travel writing is a genre that has, as its focus, accounts of real or imaginary places. The genre encompasses a number of styles that may range from the documentary to the evocative, from literary to journalistic, and from the humorous to the serious....
, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea.
He was brought up in Poplar, London
Poplar, London
Poplar is a historic, mainly residential area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is about east of Charing Cross. Historically a hamlet in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, in 1817 Poplar became a civil parish. In 1855 the Poplar District of the Metropolis was...
. He worked as a shipping clerk, and then as a reporter for the Morning Leader newspaper; he travelled up the Amazon River
Amazon River
The Amazon of South America is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined...
for it.
In World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
he was an official correspondent for the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
, in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. In 1917 he returned to work with H. W. Massingham on The Nation, which opposed the war. He left the paper in 1923, when Massingham resigned because of a change of owner and political line.
Works
- The Sea and the Jungle. Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brazils (1912)
- Old Junk (1918) stories
- London River (1921) revised 1951
- Waiting for Daylight (1922)
- Tidemarks: Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923 (1924)
- Gifts of Fortune With Some Hints For Those About to Travel (1926)
- Under the Red Ensign (1926)
- Gallions Reach (1927) novel
- Out Of Soundings (1928)
- A Brown Owl (1928)
- Illusion: 1915 (1928)
- Thomas Hardy (1929)
- Côte d'Or (1929)
- Between the Lines (1930)
- War Books. A Lecture Given at Manchester University February 15, 1929 (1930)
- All Our Yesterdays (1930)
- The Sky's the Limit (1930)
- Great Sea Stories of All Nations (1930) editor
- Best Short Stories Of the War (1931) editor
- Norman Douglas (1931)
- An Illustrated Catalogue of Rare Books on the East Indies and A Letter to a Friend (1932)
- The Snows of Helicon (1933)
- South to Cadiz (1934)
- Below London Bridge (1934)
- Mars His Idiot (1935)
- R.M.S. "Queen Mary". A noble tribute to the imagination of man (1935) with E.P. Leigh-Bennett
- Pipe All Hands (1937) novel
- The Day Before: A Romantic Chronicle (1939)
- Modern Travel (1939) editor, anthology
- Ports of Call (1939) in The Queen's Book of the Red CrossThe Queen's Book of the Red CrossThe Queen's Book of the Red Cross was published in November 1939 in afundraising effort to aid the Red Cross during World War II.The book was sponsored by Queen Elizabeth, and itscontents were contributed by fifty British authors and artists....
- The Wind is Rising. The war diary of H.M.Tomlinson and a vision of all our tomorrows (1941)
- The Turn of the Tide (1945)
- Morning Light: The Islanders in the Days of Oak and Hemp (1946)
- Malay waters. the story of little ships coasting out of Singapore and Penang in peace and war (1950)
- The Face of the Earth (1950)
- The Haunted Forest (1951)
- A Mingled Yarn: Autobiographical Sketches (1953)
- H.M. Tomlinson: a Selection from His Writings (1953) edited by Kenneth Hopkins
- The Trumpet Shall Sound (1957)