Walker, Rowland
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1876-1947) UK author of tales for boys. The Antihero of The Phantom Airman (1920) is a German airman unreconciled to the outcome of World War One, who establishes a pirate band whose depredations are made possible by a secret Invention; By Airship to the Tropics: The Amazing Adventures of Two Schoolboys (1923) unthreateningly deposits its protagonists in a Lost World; Phantom Island: A Modern Crusoe Story (1925) is a Robinsonade whose young protagonists crash their Airship on an Island somewhere north of Australia. [JC]
Rowland Walker
born 1876
died 1947
works (selected)
- The Phantom Airman (London: S W Partridge, 1920) [hb/]
- By Airship to the Tropics: The Amazing Adventures of Two Schoolboys (London: Ward, Lock and Company, 1923) [hb/]
- The Lost Expedition (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1924) [hb/]
- Phantom Island: A Modern Crusoe Story (London: Ward, Lock and Company, 1925) [hb/]
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