Muir, Ward

Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1878-1927) UK photographer and author whose "Further East than Asia": A Romantic Adventure (1919) is set in a Lost World – an Island in the Far East – whose inhabitants gain longevity (see Immortality) through bathing in a radioactive pool, which also gives them leprosy. [JC]

Wardrop Openshaw Muir

born Liverpool, England: 22 June 1878

died London: 9 June 1927

works

• "Further East than Asia": A Romantic Adventure (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, 1919) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg
• Picture Gallery

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