Frank McLynn
McLynn, 80 this year, has made a very successful career as an author, biographer, historian and journalist, having written some 30 books. He clearly aims to produce enjoyable, accessible and non-scholarly histories and biographies for a wide audience. This is suggested, among other things by his use of casual and rather boys’ own adventure story diction:
- It was the Moors who had done for Major Houghton. (p.16)
- His plight was grim. His horse was on its last legs. (p.16)
- The Landers shook the dust of Badagry off their shoes with gusto and plunged into the wilderness… (p.27)
- The master of the Thomas proved to be a blackguard. (p.30)
- Speke would not have to fear the supercilious basilisk eye from a superior beetling brow, as with Burton, every time he wandered off to slaughter a few dozen of Africa’s wildlife.
- Once again the expedition came within an ace of…
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