WESTALL, William (Bury)

(1835-1903)

   UK author and journalist, foreign correspondent for The Times of London, who travelled in South America. The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance (1886) describes a LOST-WORLD race of Maya-type people atpre-Conquest level. A Queer Race: The Story of a Strange People (1887) is concerned with a lost race of Elizabethan Englishmen who have undergone strange mutations in pigmentation. Don or Devil? (1901) is a rare lost-world text.

   JE/EFB

   Other works: Tales and Legends of Saxony and Lusatia (coll 1877); Tales and Traditions of Switzerland (coll 1882).

   See also: ANTHROPOLOGY.