Author:Frederick William Wallace

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Frederick William Wallace
(1886–1958)

Scotland-born Canadian journalist, photographer, historian and novelist. He was the author of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, a now-classic 1924 book about the last days of the Age of Sail in Maritime Canada

Frederick William Wallace

Works[edit]

  • Blue Water. A Tale of the Deep Sea Fishermen, 1907
  • 'Doughnut' Robbins's Bet, 1912 novelette
  • The Shack-Locker, 1916
  • The Viking Blood, 1920
  • Salt Seas and Sailormen, 1922 collection
    • The Sail Dragger — Tommy Decker's Tartar — Mate of the Androsina — Slush and Parsimony — "He Who Laughs Last — — —!" — Like a Proper Sailorman — The Whaler (1915)
  • Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The story of the square-rigged merchant marine of British North America, the ships, their builders and owners, and the men who sailed them, 1924 (reprinted 1973)
  • Captain Salvation, 1925 (reprinted in 2005 with an introduction by Brook Taylor)
  • Tea From China, 1926
  • In the Wake of the Wind-Ships, 1927

Works from periodicals[edit]

About Wallace[edit]

  • "Autobiographical extract (1915 Oct, Adventure) A short letter introducing himself in the "Camp-Fire" section of the magazine.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1958, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 65 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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