STABLES, (William) Gordon
- STABLES, (William) Gordon
(1840-1910)
Scottish author of children's fiction; he served as surgeon on a whaling boat and later with the Royal Navy; some of his books were signed Dr Gordon Stables, RN. He wrote extensively for the
BOYS' PAPERS, including The Boys' Own Paper, where he published many
FANTASTIC VOYAGES in competition with the serials of Jules VERNE; the most Verne-like were The Cruise of the Crystal Boat (1891), a moralistic tale of aerialadventure in an electrically powered craft, and An Island Afloat (1903). LOST-WORLD elements appeared in some stories, notably In Quest of theGiant Sloth (1901; vt The Strange Quest 1937) and In Regions of Perpetual Snow (1904), and became more dominant in The City at the Pole (1906), which envisages a temperate polar region and a Viking community and prehistoric survivals there. His only excursion outside these themes was his future- WAR novel, The Meteor Flag of England (1905).
Other works: The Cruise of the Snowbird (1882) and its sequel Wild Adventures Round the Pole (1883); From Pole to Pole (1886); Frank Hardinge (1898); In the Great White Land (1902).
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