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James McFerran
Best known today for contributing to a classic guide to sailing, this little-documented writer is linked to a late-19th-century world of yachts, clubs, and maritime enthusiasm. The surviving record is sparse, which gives the work an old-book curiosity all its own.
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Yachting, Vol. 2
by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett, G. L. Blake, Marquis of Frederick Temple Blackwood Dufferin and Ava, James McFerran, T. B. Middleton
About the author
James McFerran is a little-known author whose name survives mainly through Yachting, Vol. 2, a collaborative work also credited to R. T. Pritchett, G. L. Blake, the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, and T. B. Middleton.
Library and ebook records connect him with that volume, a substantial illustrated guide to yachting that reflects the sport and culture of sailing in the late 19th century. Modern catalog pages and public-domain listings confirm the attribution, but they offer very little personal background beyond his role as a contributor.
Because reliable biographical details are so limited, it is safest to remember McFerran as one of those authors known more by the company his work keeps than by a fully preserved life story. For readers interested in nautical history, that single surviving credit is still enough to place him within the lively publishing world that celebrated yachts, seamanship, and maritime leisure.