Grant Allen

Broschiertes Buch

An African Millionaire

Beschreibung

An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay was written by Grant Allan (1848 - 1899). Allan was a science writer, author and novelist, and supporter of the theory of evolution. Allan wrote one of the first Canadian science fiction books, The British Barbarians, in 1895. He is best remembered for his character Colonel Clay who was a gentleman rogue thief. Episodes in this book include The Episode of the Mexican Seer, The Episode of the Diamond Links, The Episode of the Old Master, The Episode of the Tyrolean Castle, The Episode of the Drawn Game, The Episode of the German Professor, The Episode of the Arrest of the Colonel, The Episode of the Seldon Gold-Mine, The Episode of the Japanned Dispatch-Box, The Episode of the Game of Poker, The Episode of the Bertillon Method, and The Episode of the Old Bailey.

Autor

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a Canadian science writer and author who was born on February 24, 1848, and died on October 25, 1899. He went to school in England. During the second half of the 1800s, he spoke out in favor of evolution. Ellen Allen was born on Wolfe Island, which is near Kingston in Canada West (now Ontario). He was the second child of Catharine Ann Grant and the Rev. Joseph Antisell Allen, who was a Protestant priest from Dublin, Ireland. The fifth Baron de Longueuil's daughter was his mother. When Allen was 13, he and his parents moved to the United States, then to France, and finally to the United Kingdom. Before that, Allen went to school at home. The two schools he went to were King Edward's School in Birmingham and Merton College in Oxford, both in the UK. Allen studied in France after high school and taught at Brighton College from 1870 to 1871. When he was in his mid-20s, he became a professor at Jamaica's Queen's College, which was for black students. Allen stopped believing in God and became a socialist, even though his father was a preacher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781438532974
• ISBN-10: 1438532970
• Artikelnr.: 28431294