WEBSTER, (Captain) F(rederick) A(nnesley) M(itchell)

(1886-?)

   UK writer, much of whose work related to athletics. His fiction typically concentrated on mysteriously sapient species (APES AND CAVEMEN) in Africa who are persuaded to raise humans as their own. Of the CLUB STORIES assembled in The Curse of the Lion (coll 1922), "The Ape People",which posits a separate language of the apes, explores this theme, as does the not dissimilar Lord of the Leopards (1935). The Ivory Talisman (1930), Gold and Glory (1932), Lost City of Light (1934), Second Wind (1934),Mubendi Girl (1935), The Trail of the Skull (1937) and The Land of Forgotten Women (1950) are LOST-WORLD tales.

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   Other works: The Odyssey of Husky Hillier (1924; vt Husky Hillier 1938); The Man who Knew (1927); Star Lady (1935) and its sequel, Son of Abdan (1936); When Strange DrumsSound (1935); Dead Venom (1937).