Leonard V. (Leonard Victor) Dalton

Leonard Victor Dalton was a British author and geologist whose dates are commonly given as 1887–1914. The clearest confirmed work linked to him is Venezuela (published in 1912), a wide-ranging account of the country’s geography, geology, natural life, and history.

The book presents him as a B.Sc. from London and a fellow of both the Geological Society and the Royal Geographical Society. That background helps explain the tone of his writing: it is not just travel narrative, but a careful attempt to describe landforms, resources, and regional character in a way that would have appealed to readers interested in exploration and the wider world.

Very little biographical information is easily confirmed online beyond his authorship, professional affiliations, and the short lifespan suggested by the dates attached to library records. Even so, Venezuela shows a writer with strong scientific interests and an eye for making a distant place feel immediate to readers.