Walter Harris

A Short Vindication of Phil. Scot's Defence of the Scots Abdicating Darien: Being in Answer to the Challenge of the Author of the Defence of That Settle Walter Harris

Publisher Marketing: Title: A short vindication of Phil. Scot's Defence of the Scots abdicating Darien: being in answer to the challenge of the author of the defence of that settlement, to prove the Spanish title to Darien, by inheritance, marriage, donation, purchase, reversion, surrender, or conquest: with a prefatory reply to the false and scurrillous aspersions, of the new author of, The just and modest vindication, &c., and some animadversions on the material part of it, relating to the title of Darien. Author: Walter HarrisPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02967500CollectionID: CTRG99-B1040PublicationDate: 17000101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Authorship also attributed to James Hodges by Wing (2nd ed.) Collation: 48 p.; 19 cm Contributor Bio:  Harris, Walter Born into a Jewish family in London in 1925, Harris joined the RAF directly from Haileybury, serving as a Lancaster flight mechanic at the RAF Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down. Later he was German interpreter to Afrika Korps prisoners of war in the Egyptian desert, in Cairo playwright in RAF Repertory Company and news reader on the Forces Network. In 1948 Harris emigrated to Brazil where he taught English and learned colloquial Portuguese. He contributed to an English language newspaper, and wrote and presented a sponsored series of music programmes on Radio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. He moved to North America in 1953, worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, and in New York was accredited radio interviewer for CBC, the first interviewee being TV impresario Ed Sullivan. In 1958 Harris returned home, continuing as interviewer for CBC and the BBC, which produced his radio plays. Harris organised six BBC TV documentaries on Holland and Morocco, shown on Wednesday Magazine, the first daytime programme screened by the BBC at its Lime Grove studios in Shepherd's Bush. In 1960 Harris made an archival spoken word LP, Theatre 60, under the distinguished ARGO record label. It covered all aspects of theatre, its participants including Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Peter Hall, Albert Finney, Harold Pinter and Kenneth Tynan. On the opening night of Beyond The Fringe at the Fortune Theatre, Harris interviewed Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. When Bob Guccione founded Penthouse, Harris became motoring correspondent, as well as contributing short stories and articles. He continued to broadcast and contribute to several newspapers and magazines. His first published novel Clovis appeared in 1970. Prior to his 80th birthday, Harris met Alison with whom he has been living and travelling for nine years. They have been chased by pirates off Zanzibar, ridden the zip wire down the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica; when Harris told the despatcher that he was 87, the man crossed himself before despatching him with a valedictory lumbar punch into the thick mist high above a rain forest, where he got stuck in a crosswind and had to be rescued. Godhead took some ten years to write, but Harris hasn't put down his pen for long. By the time he is 90, in less than two years' time, Patagonia Press will have published three volumes of his memoirs, under the generic title of Absent Virtue.