Frith, Henry
Entry updated 16 September 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1840-1917) Irish-born civil engineer, translator and author, in England from early adulthood; mostly known for his translations from the French, at least six being of novels by Jules Verne, beginning with Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (trans 1876). He is credited with a short story of sf interest, "The Balloon of the Future" (May 1885 Cassell's Family Magazine) (see Balloons), and an adaptation, which may be loose, of a tale by Lucien Biart (1829-1897), possibly (but not probably) published initially in Dutch as Unac de Indiaan (1883); it is more likely to be a version of La Frontière indienne (1880) in Biart's Les Voyages Involontaires sequence, published by Jules Hetzel in association with Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. Frith's translation or version, Unac the Indian: A Tale of Central America (1884), is a juvenile Lost Race tale whose young protagonists discover the eponymous survivor of the Toltecs deep in Mexico. [JC]
Henry Frith
born Dublin, Ireland: 2 May 1840
died Amersham, Buckinghamshire: 12 October 1917
works (selected)
- Unac the Indian: A Tale of Central America (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884) [adaptation or trans of La Frontière indienne (1880) by Lucien Biart: illus/hb/Henri Meyer]
works as translator
- Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (London: George Routledge, 1876) [trans of Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin (1871 2vols): Voyages extraordinaires: Captain Nemo: hb/]
- Jules Verne. The Floating City and the Blockade Runners (London: George Routledge, 1876) [coll: trans of "Une Ville flottante" suivi de "Les Forceurs de blocus" (coll 1871): Voyages extraordinaires: hb/]
- Jules Verne. Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in Southern Africa (London: George Routledge, 1877) [trans of Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais (1872): Voyages extraordinaires: hb/]
- Jules Verne. Round the World in Eighty Days (London: George Routledge, 1878) [trans of Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873): Voyages extraordinaires: hb/]
- Jules Verne. The Fur Country (London: George Routledge, 1879) [trans of Le Pays des fourrures (1873): Voyages extraordinaires: hb/]
- Jules Verne. Keraban the Inflexible (The Captain of the Guidara and Scarpante, the Spy) (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884) [published in two volumes: trans of Kéraban-le-têtu (1883): Voyages extraordinaires: hb/]
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