Description
Finn The Wolfhound is a book inspired by the author’s own dog named Tynagh and his dog’s son Gareth, who were his biggest and finest pets of his breed, both dogs were the models for Tara and Finn, the animal characters in the story. Finn is a champion Irish Wolfhound and is taken from England to Australia where he does loads of extreme adventures, as a wild and ferocious animal in a circus and eventually frees himself out and finally goes back to his old master where he saved his life. Alec John Dawson or simply known as A. J. Dawson bearing the pen names, Major Dawson, Howard Kerr, and Nicholas Freydon. He was an English writer, traveler and novelist. He was ranked as Major during the First World War and was given recognition of MBE and Croix de Guerre for his work as a military propagandist. Dawson had written more than thirty books, the best memorable book until today is the animal adventure tale, Finn the Wolfhound in 1908. Alec John Dawson was born in Wandsworth, England, to Edward Dawson and Sara Dawson. He did not continue his studies instead he became an apprentice in the Merchant Navy, but got tired of it and jumped ship in Australia after many voyages. For a few years he worked in a farm and later he became one of the staffs of a Melbourne newspaper. After five years, he started to become a writer, and he traveled many times around Australasia, India, Ceylon, Mauritius, South America, West Africa, Morocco and Europe. His first work, Leeway, was written in 1896 under his pseudonym, Howard Kerr. He was also greatly remarkable for his publications such as God’s Foundling; Mere Sentiment; Middle Greyness; In the Bight of Benin; Bismillah; Daniel Whyte, An Unfinished Biography; The Story of Ronald Kestrel; African Nights Entertainments; and other wonderful and pleasing short stories and novels.
Product ID: 9781776669844
Sku: RR-PU6A-PSZ5
