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Less like a novel than like a tale told by some not too ancient mariner. New Author Walmsley's book will enthrall the large audience due to come its way. It speaks of fishermen's lives at Bramblewick, a tiny hamlet on the English North Sea coast. Heroes of the tale are the Lunns, who keep a weather eye out for any new chance to catch a living that the varying sea affords, keep a jealous friendly eye on the size of their rivals', the Fosdyck's, hauls. Villains of the tale are the stormy, treacherous North...
...Author. Youngest son of a local artist of Robin Hood's Bay (Bramblewick), a Yorkshire fishing village, Author Walmsley ran off to sea when young, later became Curator of the Yorkshire Marine Biological Station. He served during the War in the Flying Corps, crashed 14 times. After a trip to the French Sahara as naturalist on a scientific expedition he took to writing adventure stories, a novel of African pygmy life, Toro of the Little People. The ache of War wounds made him drop writing, go home to become an inshore fisherman, try to market his invention of a collapsible...
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