We’re pleased to announce new Author Benjamin S. Johnson to The Errol Flynn Blog! Welcome, Ben! We look forward to your posts and comments!
— David DeWitt
Archive for the ‘Blog Authors’ Category
We Welcome New Author Alina Durand to The Errol Flynn Blog!
27
Dec
We’re happy to announce New Author Alina Durand of France to The Errol Flynn Blog! Alina is busy with other things just now, but is happy to join us and we look forward to her presence on the blog!
— David DeWitt
We Welcome New Author Delvan Irwin to The Errol Flynn Blog!
29
Oct
I’m happy to announce our newest Author Delvan Irwin to The Errol Flynn Blog. Delvan, we look forward to your Posts and comments! Welcome aboard …
— David DeWitt
We Welcome New Author May MacGregor to the EF Blog!
01
Jun
May, we look forward to your posts and comments.
— Inga
We Welcome New Author David Trioux to The Errol Flynn Blog!
07
May
I am happy to announce new Author David Trioux to The Errol Flynn Blog! David, we look forward to having you here with us!
— David DeWitt
Errol Strikes Gold in New Guinea – By the Light of His Hurricane Lamps
29
Apr
When Errol moved to Salamaua, Papua New Guinea, he “plunged” himself into reading great works of literature – through “Russian novelists, Greek philosophers, French writers” he nightly “skipped, waded, muddled” and “sometimes swam well”, by the light of his hurricane lamps, fondling these books as if [he] were running his hands through a lovely woman’s hair”. “An inner need for learning sprang up in [him]” “to connect with the ideas of the world” – a need that proved pivotal in his life. This was where and how Errol found gold in New Guinea, as he put it.
Here’s Errol’s own description of that transformative time & experience:
And here’s pre-WWII Salamaua, where Errol lived:
Errol’s Jungle Reading List included:
Aristotle
Honore de Balzac
George Baudelaire (Correction: that should obviously be Charles Baudelaire!)
Victor Hugo
Guy de Maupassant
Plato
Edmond Rostand – Errol particularly liked the “beauty of style” of Rostand, who he read with the help of a French dictionary, and said had the “greatest influence upon [him]”. He specifically cited L’Aiglon, the story of Napoleon II. I imagine he also read Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Here’s some images of the books as Errol may have seen them:
Robert Louis Stevenson
H. G. Wells
Here are some 1930 images of The Outline of History, as Errol may have seen it:
— Tim
We Welcome New Author, Tom Webb!
20
Apr
I am pleased to welcome new author Tom Web to The Errol Flynn Blog! Tom, welcome aboard, we look forward to your contributions and comments!
— David DeWitt
We Welcome New Author Michael Town!
15
Oct
We are pleased to welcome our newest Author Michael Town to The Errol Flynn Blog! Michael, we look forward to your posts and comments! Welcome aboard!
— David DeWitt
Father of Flynn – “Not Just Errol’s Father”
01
Aug
From ABC Australia comes this new video regarding the life & career of Errol’s Dad:
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Easy to see from the above photo why and how Errol favored his father.
— Tim
