Robert Huish

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Robert Huish

1777–1850

A busy and wide-ranging 19th-century English writer, he produced everything from novels and royal memoirs to travel books and popular works on bees. His career mixed curiosity, speed, and controversy, making him a colorful figure in early Victorian print culture.

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Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa

Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa

by Robert Huish

About the author

Born in Nottingham in 1777, Robert Huish became a notably prolific English author whose books covered history, fiction, biography, travel, and practical subjects. He appears to have begun with writing on bee culture, an area in which he became especially well known, and later expanded into a remarkably broad range of commercial writing.

Huish wrote about public figures and current events as well as more adventurous subjects, including Arctic exploration. His The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross helped bring polar travel to a wider reading public, while his many memoirs and popular histories show how closely he worked with the tastes of the early 19th-century book market.

He died in April 1850. Although later critics have sometimes treated his work unevenly, his huge output gives a vivid sense of the energetic, fast-moving world of British publishing in his time.