Frank Coutts Hendry OBE, MC (1875–1955) served in the Indian Army Reserve, Merchant Navy, Rangoon Pilot Service, was an Indian Army officer, and author.[1][2] His Military Cross is in the Royal Museums Greenwich collections.[1] Several of his books were published by William Blackwood's Blackwood's Magazine and William Blackwood & Sons. He used the pseudonym Shalimar.[3] Hendry was an influence on Courtenay Latiner.[4]
Hendry wrote from his own experiences.[5] His time at sea included on Singapore ships.[6] Hendry eventually retired to an area in the north of Scotland to focus on writing.[5]
Bibliography
- A Windjammer's Half Deck[7]
- The Ocean Tramp
- Land and Sea
- From all the seas (1933)[8]
- One Monsoon Night (1936)
- Down to the Sea (1937)[9][10]
- From the Log Book of Memory
- True tales of sail and steam
- Sail Ho!
- The Yomah-and after
- En havets demon
- Deep seas and shoal rivers
- The peaceful wanderer[11]
- From the log-book of memory (1950),[12] an autobiography
- Around the horn and home again: and other tales (1929)[13]
- Through the gap, short story[14]
- Easting Down, short story[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Military Cross - National Maritime Museum. collections.rmg.co.uk.
- ↑ A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories{{#if:Fforde|, Fforde}. Simon and Schuster(December 20, 2012). ISBN 9781681467061
- ↑ A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language{{#if:Carty|, Carty}. Routledge(December 3, 2015). ISBN 9781135955786
- ↑ Creeping Up on Auckland{{#if:Latimer|, Latimer}. Rowman & Littlefield(November 4, 2005). ISBN 9781461744283
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The North American Review. University of Northern Iowa(February 10, 1931).
- ↑ The Nautical Magazine(February 10, 1950).
- ↑ A windjammer's half-deck, Hendry, Frank Coutts. Penguin books(February 10, 1940).
- ↑ From All the Seas, by Shalimar (f.c. Hendry).. William blackwood(February 10, 1933).
- ↑ People, Place and Power on the Nineteenth-Century Waterfront{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(2016-08-24). ISBN 9783319331591
- ↑ A Mariner's Miscellany{{#if:Spectre|, Spectre}. Sheridan House, Inc.(February 10, 2005). ISBN 9781574091953
- ↑ The Peaceful Wanderer, By Shalimar (F.C. Hendry)., Hendry, Frank Coutts(February 10, 1938).
- ↑ British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951{{#if:Matthews|, Matthews}. University of California Press(January 1, 1984). ISBN 9780520053571
- ↑ Around the Horn and Home Again.
- ↑ A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(20 December 2012). ISBN 9781681467061
- ↑ The Oxford book of sea stories{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192803700