Wank, Elihu S
Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author A Gordon Jones (? -? ) whose How I Discovered the North Pole [for full title see Checklist below] (1909) is a Parody of Polar expedition narratives, including the use of a prehistoric mammoth (see Lost World; Prehistoric SF) in the role of elephant, and the capture of giant whelks. Sherlock Holmes makes a brief appearance. [JC]
A Gordon Jones
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- How I Discovered the North Pole: Being the Diary of Professor Elihu S Wank, of Chicago, Together with an Account of an Interview with the Explorer in London by Rotter's Special Correspondent, Etc, Etc: Edited by A Gordon Jones (London: Everett and Company, 1909) [illus/pb/George A Stevens]
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