Frank Thomas Bullen

Frank Thomas Bullen (1857-1915), a British writer and novelist, was born on April 5, 1857, in Paddington, London, with poor parents and studied at a lady's school and at a school in Westbourne, Paddington for several years. At the age of 9, he dropped out of school and began working as a boy. In 1869, he went to sea and traveled all over the world with various abilities, including the second assistant to the Harbinger and the chief assistant to Dawn of the Day, under the command of Captain John R. Ward June in 1879, when she was removed from life and became disabled. You can draw a parallel with the career of Joseph Conrad at sea aboard Torrence 1891-1893. He was a clerk at the Meteorological Bureau from 1883 to 1889. His reputation was created through the publication of Cruise Sperm Whale (1898); and he also wrote, among other books, “Idylls of the Sea” (1899); Sea wreck (1903); Call of the Abyss (1907) and the finished sea cook (1912), in addition to many articles and essays. He lectured a lot and was very critical of Australasia's lack of protection against what he considered inevitable naval threats from Germany and Japan. He died in Madeira on March 1, 1915.