ERIC LINKLATER
GATHERING LOCAL COLOUR Mr. Eric Linklater went to China in 1935 to gather local colour for his new novel, "Juan in China," which was reviewed on this page recently. The East was not new to him. For two years he was assistant editor of The Times of India in Bombay. After he had saved some money he crossed into Persia and South found some difficulty in getting out again! Later he spent another two years in the United States, when he was given a travelling fellowship. He wandered from the Canadian Rockies to the Panama Canal, and returned home to write, "Juan in America." Mr. Linklater is a native of Orkney and is in the middle thirties. During the War, when lie was 15, he left Aberdeen Grammar School and joined the Army. But they sent him back again until he was 18. Then he became a private in the Black Watch, and was severely wounded. After the Armistice he went up to Aberdeen University } intending to be a doctor. The authorities, he says, were relieved when he gave up the idea and left. They certainly have my sympathy, states a contributor to John '0 London's Weekly, if his handwriting was as bad then as it is now. It looks neat enough, but needs a code expert to decipher it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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ERIC LINKLATER
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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