W. A. (William Alexander) Adams

W. A. Adams, identified by Project Gutenberg as William Alexander Adams (1821–1896), is credited there with Twenty-six years reminiscences of Scotch grouse moors. The book is a firsthand-looking account of many seasons spent on Scottish moors, mixing personal memory with observations about sport, landscape, and changing habits of travel and shooting.

Reliable biographical information about him as an author is quite limited in the sources I could confirm. A historical engineering reference for William Alexander Adams describes a man of that name born in Quintero, Chile, on August 26, 1821, who later worked in Britain and died in 1896. Because the available sources do not clearly separate his literary life from other professional work, it is safest to say that the published memoir is associated with this William Alexander Adams, while leaving finer details unstated.

Readers coming to Adams today will likely enjoy him less for plot than for atmosphere: he writes from experience, with the tone of someone remembering a vanished world. For listeners interested in outdoor writing, sporting history, or Victorian memoir, his work has an easy period charm.