author
Raymond Auzias-Turenne
1861–1940
A French writer, diplomat, and banker who carried his experiences across North America into adventure-filled fiction. His work ranges from Klondike gold-rush storytelling to an early lost-world tale about the last surviving mammoth.
1 Audiobook
Le roi du Klondike
by Raymond Auzias-Turenne
About the author
Born in Grenoble on November 23, 1861, he wrote in French and is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France as Raymond Auzias-Turenne, with a life that ended in Montreal on September 20, 1940. Reference sources also describe him not only as an author, but as a diplomat and banker, and note that he lived in Canada from about 1890.
That wide-ranging life seems to have fed directly into his books. His known works include Le roi du Klondike and Le dernier Mammouth (1904), the latter remembered by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as a lost-world story about a surviving mammoth pursued by hunters.
He is not a household name today, but he is an interesting rediscovery: a French-language author whose fiction connects travel, frontier life, and early speculative adventure. For listeners who enjoy forgotten explorers of popular fiction, his work offers both period atmosphere and a glimpse of science fiction before the genre had fully taken shape.