author
Reginald Horsley
1863–1926
Adventure, empire, and far-off frontiers run through these lively late-Victorian tales, which often send young heroes into danger on land and sea. His books draw on New Zealand, the Pacific, and other colonial settings, giving them a strong sense of movement and place.
3 Audiobooks
In the grip of the Hawk: A story of the Maori wars
by Reginald Horsley
The Blue Balloon: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley
by Reginald Horsley
New Zealand
by Reginald Horsley
About the author
Reginald Ernest Horsley was a British-born writer associated with adventure fiction for younger readers and general audiences. Catalog and reference sources identify him as the author of works including In the Grip of the Hawk, The Blue Balloon, Hunted Through Fiji, The Yellow God, and New Zealand.
His fiction is closely tied to imperial-era travel and frontier storytelling. Several of his books are set in New Zealand or the Pacific, and his nonfiction New Zealand shows the same interest in landscape, history, and the wider British world that appears in his novels.
Some sources disagree about his birth year, with library records listing 1863 while the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction gives 1858. Based on the records found here, it is safest to say that he died in 1926 and wrote adventure stories that were popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.