Henry Major Tomlinson (1873-1958) was a British writer and journalist who wrote about London, the sea, the tropics, and the futility of war. He wrote many novels-including Gallions Reach, All Our Yesterdays, and Morning Light-but is probably best known for his travel books, including The Turn of the Tide and London River.
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One rainy morning in the winter of 1909, a man with an altogether average look about him quit his job at the London Morning Leader, kissed his wife and children goodbye, and took a train to Swansea in Wales, where he talked his way aboard a freighter boun... SEE MORE