Author: HUTCHINSON, HORACE GORDON.
Title: Fairway Island.
Description: London: Cassell and Company Ltd, nd. (c.1916). Adventure story. Pp.viii/264, black & white frontispiece + 3 further full-page illustrations by W.S.Stacey, prize plate to front free endpaper dated 1916, light spotting to endpapers. Blue illustrated boards rubbed, title to spine dulled. G+.** Horatio Gordon "Horace" Hutchinson (1859–1932) was an English amateur golfer who played in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Hutchinson won the 1886 and 1887 Amateur Championships. He had three top-10 finishes in the Open Championship, his best result being sixth in the 1890 Open Championship. He wrote many popular books about golf but also wrote a number of other non-fiction and fiction books, most of which have now virtually disappeared from circulation. He suffered from ill-health for much of his life and committed suicide at the age of 73.His early career as a writer is referred to in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction by John Sutherland (1990) where his work is described as ‘adventure stories for grown-up boys.’.

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