After gaining his doctorate, this author wrote his only professional paper, An Essay on the External Use of Water, while the anonymous A Compendium of Authentic Voyages stemmed from his time as a surgeon's mate in the English navy.
After gaining his doctorate, this author wrote his only professional paper, An Essay on the External Use of Water, while the anonymous A Compendium of Authentic Voyages stemmed from his time as a surgeon's mate in the English navy. He failed as a playwright, notably with The Reprisal and The Regicide, the latter written as an eighteen year-old, but experienced more success with his harshly-satirical picaresque novels, including The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. FTP, who was this Scottish novelist, author of The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker and The Adventures of Roderick Random?
After gaining his doctorate, this author wrote his only professional paper, An Essay on the External Use of Water, while the anonymous A Compendium of Authentic Voyages stemmed from his time as a surgeon's mate in the English navy.
Tobias Smollett