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Channing Arnold
d. 1937
An English journalist and travel writer, he is best remembered for vivid books shaped by reporting, curiosity, and long-distance travel. His work often explored places such as Mexico and the Yucatán for a broad early-20th-century readership.
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The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan
by Channing Arnold, Frederick J. Tabor Frost
About the author
Born William Channing Arnold in 1869, he was the son of the writer and journalist Sir Edwin Arnold, but published and was generally known simply as Channing Arnold. He worked as a journalist and writer, building a career around reportage, travel, and descriptive nonfiction.
Arnold is associated especially with travel writing. Among the works linked to him is The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan, written with Frederick J. Tabor Frost, which reflects his interest in history, place, and firsthand observation. Library and reference sources also describe him as an English journalist and writer rather than primarily a novelist.
Sources located for this profile agree on his identity and career, but they do not all agree on his year of death: some reference material points to 1937, while other cataloging sources list 1938. Because of that conflict, it is safest to say he died in the late 1930s.