William McFee (1881–1966)
Author of Casuals of the Sea
About the Author
Series
Works by William McFee
No castle in Spain 8 copies
Watch below; a reconstruction in narrative form of the golden age of steam when coal took the place of wind and the… (1940) 7 copies
Stories of the Sea — Contributor — 4 copies
Letters from an ocean tramp 4 copies
A six-hour shift 2 copies
Race 2 copies
The reflections of Marsyas 2 copies
The Captain Macedoine cocktail 2 copies
An Engineer's Notebook 2 copies
"The Port of Lonely Men" 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1881-06-15
- Date of death
- 1966-07-02
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
UK - Places of residence
- Westport, Connecticut, USA
London, England, UK - Education
- Culford School, Suffolk, England
- Occupations
- engineer (mechanical)
mariner - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1941)
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Statistics
- Works
- 40
- Also by
- 9
- Members
- 247
- Popularity
- #92,310
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 23
The difficulty here is that there are no accounts of Frobisher that provide information on his personality, so McFee frequently offers suppositions, surmises, and deductions to describe the character of his subject. He cannot round out his man with anecdotes or diaries or remembrances of associates, he can only give him a historical grounding in the time of Elizabeth I,and show where he was and what he was up to. McFee 's thorough knowledge of seafaring and seamanship (he was a mariner himself aboard steamships), and a crisp, unaffected style carry the book along as well as can be managed.… (more)