Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

Born in 1870, Frederick George Aflalo was a British zoologist, traveller, and writer. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and his published work shows a wide-ranging interest in animals, sport, travel, and the natural world.

Aflalo wrote across several related subjects, from birds and British animals to fishing adventures and wilderness travel. Works associated with him include Birds in the Calendar, Types of British Animals, A Fisherman's Summer in Canada, A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle, and A Book of Fishing Stories.

He died in 1918, but his books still give a clear sense of an energetic early twentieth-century writer who loved both careful natural history and the pleasures of outdoor life.