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Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
Best known for fast-moving adventure romances, this British writer took readers from the Spanish Armada to Antarctica and deep into Africa. His stories mix treasure hunts, exploration, and the kind of late-Victorian imagination that still feels lively.
2 Audiobooks
The Pursuit
by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
Beyond the Great South Wall: The Secret of the Antarctic
by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
About the author
Frank Mackenzie Savile, also listed as Frank Hope Mackenzie Savile, was a British author born in Matlock, Derbyshire, in 1865 and died in Camberley, Surrey, in 1950. He began publishing in the 1890s, and one early book, John Ship, Mariner (1898), appeared under the playful alias Knarf Elivas, his name reversed.
He wrote a stream of adventure fiction at the turn of the century, including The Foray of the "Hendrik Hudson", The Blessing of Esau, and Beyond the Great South Wall. Reference sources especially note him for imaginative adventure and early speculative fiction, with Beyond the Great South Wall standing out as a lost-world-style Antarctic tale.
Savile's life seems to have matched the energy of his books. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says he served in the First World War, was wounded at Gallipoli, later became a Major in the Tank Battalion, and in later years was known as an explorer and big-game hunter in Africa.