An Iceland Fisherman (Dodo Press)
Loti, Pierre / Cambon, M. Jules
Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923) was a French sailor and writer, who used the pseudonym Pierre Loti. At the age of seventeen, being destined for the navy, he entered the naval school in Brest. In 1876 fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing with some curious experiences at Istanbul. The result was Aziyadé (1879). Several years after leaving Tahiti where he had spent part of his naval training,...