Howell, George Rogers
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1833-1899) US educationist, editor and author of Noah's Log Book: How Two Americans Blasted the Ice on Mt Ararat and Found Noah's Ark and Some Curious Relics (coll 1898), the title tale describing the discovery of, and transcribing, Noah's journal. To this is appended "The Open Polar Sea: Its Discovery by an Unknown New Yorker, Believed to be From the East End of Long Island", whose narrator has travelled by Balloon to a clement Lost World close to the North Pole. [JC]
George Rogers Howell
born Southampton, Massachusetts: 15 June 1833
died Albany, New York: 5 April 1899
works (highly selected)
- Noah's Log Book: How Two Americans Blasted the Ice on Mt Ararat and Found Noah's Ark and Some Curious Relics (New York: F Tennyson Neely, 1898) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]
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