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Col. A. G. Feather
Known from a small body of late-19th-century adventure and exploration books, this elusive writer packaged the big geographical dramas of the era for popular readers. The surviving record is thin, which gives the name an added air of mystery.
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About the author
Col. A. G. Feather is the credited author of Stanley's Story; Or, Through the Wilds of Africa, a book first published in 1890 and now preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. The book presents the career of Henry M. Stanley as a sweeping popular narrative, drawing on reports and published information about Stanley's African expeditions.
Feather is also credited with The King of Mysteries; or, The World's Wonderland, published in 1891, a large illustrated volume about Arctic exploration. Across these books, the focus is clear: dramatic nonfiction-style storytelling about exploration, hardship, discovery, and places that late-Victorian readers would have seen as remote and exciting.
Very little reliable biographical information about Feather appears to survive online beyond the books themselves and their publication details. Because of that, it is safest to describe Feather as a late-19th-century compiler or popular writer of exploration narratives rather than claim personal details that cannot be confirmed.