Linklater, Thomas H
Entry updated 16 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1849-? ) UK accountant, possible missionary and translator, whose version of Jules Verne's De la Terre à la Lune: Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes (1865) and Autour de la Lune: Seconde partie de: De la Terre à la Lune (1870) as From the Earth to the Moon Direct and Around the Moon (1877) remains among the very few Victorian translations of Verne worth keeping in print. In notes to his 1978 translation of the novel, Walter James Miller criticize five different nineteenth-century translations, but does not mention Linklater, [JC]
Thomas H Linklater
born London: 1849
works as translator
- Jules Verne. From the Earth to the Moon Direct and Around the Moon (London: George Routledge, 1877) [omni: trans of De la Terre à la Lune: Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes (1865) and Autour de la Lune: Seconde partie de: De la Terre à la Lune (1870): hb/]
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