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Charles Winslow Hall
1843–1916
An adventurous 19th-century writer who turned travel, history, and military subjects into lively reading for younger audiences. His books range from icy sea expeditions to globe-spanning journeys, with a reporter’s eye for detail and movement.
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Adrift in the Ice-Fields
by Charles Winslow Hall
About the author
Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1843, Charles Winslow Hall was an American lawyer, journalist, and author. Records gathered by library and public-domain reference sites consistently connect him with those professions, and his surviving books show a strong interest in travel, adventure, and history.
Hall wrote works including Adrift in the Ice-Fields, Drifting round the world: a boy's adventures by sea and land, Cartagena; or, The Lost Brigade, and the large historical set Regiments and Armories of Massachusetts. Taken together, they suggest a writer who was comfortable moving between juvenile adventure fiction and documentary-style historical writing.
He died in 1916. While a confirmed portrait was not available from the sources I could verify here, his work remains accessible through major public-domain and library collections, where he appears as a solid example of the energetic, wide-ranging American authors published in the late 1800s and early 1900s.