Praise the sports of the land And water, each one – The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the sea – But of all the sweet pleasures Known under the sun; A good game of Croquet’s the sweetest to me.
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| Birth: | 4th April, 1818 |
| Death: | 22nd October, 1883 |
| Nationality: | American, Irish, Scottish |
| Profession: | Novelist |
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Thomas Mayne Reid was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.
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