Holder, C F
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1851-1915) US naturalist, sportsman and author, mostly of nonfiction on nature or sport or both; two Young Adult tales are of sf interest: The Treasure Divers: A Boy's Adventures in the Depths of the Sea (1898), involving an Invention and mysteries Under the Sea; and The Adventures of Torqua: Being the Life and Remarkable Adventures of Three Boys, Refugees on the Island of Santa Catalina (Pimug-na), in the Eighteenth Century (1902), a Lost Race tale set in a romanticized eighteenth-century California. [JC]
Charles Frederick Holder
born Lynn, Massachusetts: 5 August 1851
died Pasadena, California: 10 October 1915
works
- The Treasure Divers: A Boy's Adventures in the Depths of the Sea (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898) [hb/]
- The Adventures of Torqua: Being the Life and Remarkable Adventures of Three Boys, Refugees on the Island of Santa Catalina (Pimug-na), in the Eighteenth Century (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1902) [hb/]
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