Balfour, Andrew
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1873-1931) Scottish medical doctor specializing in tropical medicine, and at around the beginning of the twentieth century author of several adventure novels under the influence of H Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. Of these, The Golden Kingdom: Being an Account of the Quest for the Same as Described in the Remarkable Narrative of Doctor Henry Mortimer, Contained in the Manuscript Found with the Boards of a Boer Bible During the Late War, and Edited with a Prefatory Note (1903) is a vigorously Haggardian Lost World tale set in southern Africa. [JC]
Sir Andrew Balfour
born Edinburgh, Scotland: 21 March 1873
died Tonbridge, Kent: 30 January 1931
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- The Golden Kingdom: Being an Account of the Quest for the Same as Described in the Remarkable Narrative of Doctor Henry Mortimer, Contained in the Manuscript Found with the Boards of a Boer Bible During the Late War, and Edited with a Prefatory Note (London: Hutchinson, 1903) [hb/]
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