The Mud Larks Again

by Crosbie Garstin

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114 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1919

About the author

Crosbie Garstin (7 May 1887 – disappeared 19 April 1930) was a poet, soldier, traveler, and novelist who died young. At an early age he left his native Cornwall to work in the gold fields and lumber camps of northern Canada and later as a ranger in British East Africa. He returned at the start of the Great War and took a commission in the cavalry. His writings, mainly poetry and memoirs of the front lines, began to appear after the war. His claim to literary fame came between the years 1923 and 1926 with the publication of his Penhales novels — "The Owls House", "High Noon", and "West Wind" — a trilogy of swashbuckling adventures that roamed the 18th century from Cornwall to the Caribbean.

With the success of his popular novels, Garstin bought a house in a valley southwest of Penzance, and there continued to write. In 1930, however, at the age of 42, a boat he was rowing overturned, and Crosbie Garstin was lost, presumed dead.