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Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
Best known for late-Victorian adventure fiction, this British novelist wrote sea stories, treasure hunts, and early imaginative tales that carried readers from the Faroe Isles to Antarctica. He also published under the playful alias "Knarf Elivas," his own name spelled backward.
2 Audiobooks
Beyond the Great South Wall: The Secret of the Antarctic
by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
The Pursuit
by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
About the author
Frank Mackenzie Savile was a British author born in 1865 and died in 1950. Reference sources on his work show that he began publishing fiction in the late 1890s, including The Story of John Ship, Mariner (1898) and The Foray of the "Hendrik Hudson" (1898).
He wrote energetic popular fiction with a strong taste for travel, danger, and faraway settings. The SF Encyclopedia notes that he first used the alias Knarf Elivas and remembers him especially for adventurous and speculative works such as Beyond the Great South Wall, an early Antarctic tale.
Listings from library and bibliography sources also show a steady run of books around the turn of the century, including The Blessing of Esau (1900). Taken together, they suggest a writer who moved easily between historical adventure, imperial romance, and early science-fictional storytelling.