Arnold Henry Savage Landor (2 June 1865 – 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer, and

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. Landor wrote in an often witty style.

Life and career

Arnold H. S. Landor was born to Charles Savage Landor in Florence, Italy, where he spent his childhood. The writer Walter Savage Landor was his grandfather. He left for Paris at age fifteen to study at the

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directed by Gustave Boulanger and

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. He then traveled the world, including America, Japan, and Korea, painting many landscapes and portraits. Upon his return to England, he was invited to Balmoral by Queen Victoria to recount his adventures and show his drawings. He later traveled to Nepal and Tibet, telling of his experiences in two books: ''In the Forbidden Land'' (1898) and ''Tibet and Nepal'' (1905). When he learned about the

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in China he went to Peking (now spelled Beijing) to join the victory parade, afterward writing ''China and the Allies'' (1901). In 1901 he traveled from Russia to India, riding on horseback through Persia, publishing the account of that journey in the book ''Across Coveted Lands'' (1902). A journey to the Philippine Islands resulted in another book: ''The Gems of the East'' (1904). During the 1900s he visited Abyssinia and painted a portrait of the king Menelik II. Landor's book ''Across Widest Africa'' was published in 1906. During 1911 and 1912 he made an eventful expedition to the

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in Brazil and in 1913 published ''Across Unknown South America''. He had an active role in World War I, designing tanks and airships. Eventually, he retired to write his autobiography in Florence, where he died in 1924. He is buried in the English Cemetery, Florence.

Works

* ''Alone with the Hairy Ainu'' (1893). * ''Corea or Cho-sen'' (1895). * ''In the Forbidden Land'' (1898). * ''China and the Allies'' (1901).
''Across Coveted Lands'' (1902).
* ''The Gems of the East'' (1904).
''Tibet and Nepal''
(1905). * ''The Living Races of Mankind'' (1905).
''Across Widest Africa''
(1907).
''An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet''
(1910).
''Across Unknown South America''
(1913). * ''Everywhere, the Memoirs of an Explorer'' (1924).

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* * 1865 births 1924 deaths English travel writers English male painters English explorers English anthropologists 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters 19th-century English male artists 20th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub