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Rounsevelle Wildman
1864–1901
An adventurous American writer and diplomat, he turned years spent in Southeast Asia and China into lively travel writing and fiction. His career ranged from journalism and magazine editing to foreign service, giving his books an eyewitness feel.
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Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines
by Rounsevelle Wildman
About the author
Born in Batavia, New York, on March 19, 1864, Rounsevelle Wildman built an unusually varied career as a journalist, editor, and U.S. diplomat. He owned and edited Overland Monthly in the 1890s and later served in the American foreign service, including posts connected with Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements.
Wildman drew heavily on his travels in Asia for his writing. The Library of Congress records China's Open Door (1900), and his other books include Tales of the Malayan Coast and The Panglima Muda, works that blend observation, storytelling, and the atmosphere of the late nineteenth-century Pacific world.
His life ended suddenly and tragically on February 22, 1901, when he died in the sinking of the City of Rio de Janeiro in San Francisco Bay. That brief life left behind a body of work shaped by movement, reportage, and close contact with places many American readers of his time knew only from print.