author
David Ker
1842–1914
A prolific Victorian writer and journalist, he turned years of travel and war reporting into fast-moving adventure stories for young readers. His books range from historical fiction to tales set across Russia, Central Asia, and the wider world.
2 Audiobooks
Wonder Stories of Travel
by Eliot McCormick, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) Brown, Ernest Ingersoll, David Ker
About the author
Born in 1842, David Ker was a British author and journalist of Scots ancestry. Reference sources describe him as a tutor in Russia and later a war correspondent, including work connected with the Daily Telegraph and time spent in New York. Those experiences seem to have fed directly into his fiction, which often carries a strong sense of movement, danger, and far-off places.
Ker wrote a large number of books, especially adventure stories for younger readers. Surviving bibliographic records show titles such as O'er Tartar Deserts, Swept Out to Sea, and Under the Flag of France, along with many other historical and imperial adventure tales. He died in 1914.
Although he is not widely known today, Ker belongs to the rich world of late-19th-century popular fiction: writers who mixed journalism, travel, and storytelling to bring distant settings vividly to life for their audience.