An autobiographical account from 1900 to 1919. The author was a British travel writer and journalist. During the First World War he was an official correspondent for the British Army in France. He returned in 1917 to work on 'The Nation', a publication opposed to the war. Born in the East End of London, his first job was as a Shipping Clerk. He then he became a journalist for the Morning Leader, for whom one of his assignments involved travelling up the Amazon.
