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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Male : Adventurer, story and travel writer. He travelled extensively in South America, hoping to make his fortune. He failed. In 1879 he married the Chilean poet, Gabriela de la Balmondiere
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1852 Date of Death : 1936 Age : 84

Other Work : MP for NW Lanarkshire 1886-92 & joing the ILP, helped Kier Hardie organise the Scottish Labour Party. In 1928 became the first President of the Scottish National Party

Education : Harrow
1889-1900
The Nail and Chainmakers
(c1889 London Agency Press) - pamphlet, with two other authors
Economic Evolution
(1891 Leatham, Aberdeen & Reeves) - pamphlet
Notes on the District of Menteith for Tourists & Others
(1895 A & C Black)
The Imperial Kailyard
(1896 Twentieth Century Press)
Father Archangel of Scotland & Other Essays
(1896 A & C Black) - with Gabriela
Aurora La Cujini : A Realistic Sketch in Seville
(1898 Leonard Smithers)
- Ltd Ed 23pp pb of 500 copies
Mogreb-el-Acksa : A Journey in Morocco
(1898 Heinemann)
The Ipane
(1899 Fisher Unwin)
Thirteen Stories
(1900 Heinemann) (1928 Duckworth's New Readers Library Series)

1901-1910
A Vanished Arcadia : Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767
(1901 Heinemann)
Success
(1902 Duckworth Greenback Library Series)
Hernando de Soto : Together with an Account of His Captains
(1903 Heinemann)
Progress
(1905 Duckworth)
His People
(1906 Duckworth)
Faith
(1909 Duckworth)
Hope
(1910 Duckworth)

1911-1920
Charity
(1912 Duckworth)
A Hatchment
(1913 Duckworth)
El Rio de la Plata
(1914 Wertheimer)
Scottish Stories
(1914 Duckworth)
Bernal D'Iaz del Castillo : Being Some Account of Him Taken from His True History
of the Conquest of New Spain
(1915 Eveleigh Nash)
Brought Forward
(1916 Duckworth)
A Brazilian Mystic : Being the Life & Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro
(1920 Heinemann)

1921-1930
Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu
(1921 Heinemann)
The Conquest of New Granada : Being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada
(1922 Heinemann)
The Dream of the Magi
(1923 Heinemann) - Signed Ltd Ed 280
Mapirunga
(1924 Heinemann) - Signed Ltd Ed 350
The Conquest of the River Plate
(1924 Heinemann)
Doughty Deeds : An Account of the Life of Robert Graham of Gartmore
(1925 Heinemann)
[A biography of his grandfather, Robert Graham]
Pedro de Valdivia
(1926 Heinemann)
Redeemed & Other Sketches
(1927 Heinemann)
Bibi
(1929 Heinemann) - Signed Ltd Ed 250
Jose Antonio Paez
(1929 Heinemann)
Thirty Tales and Sketches
(1929 Duckworth)
The Horses of the Conquest
(1930 Heinemann)

After 1931
Writ in Sand
(1932 Heinemann)
Portrait of a Dictator : Francisco Solano Lopez, Paraguay 1865-70
(1933 Heinemann)
Mirages
(1936 Heinemann)
Rodeo
(1936 Heinemann)
The Essential R B Cunninghame Graham
(1952 Cape)
Beattock for Moffat and the Best of R B Cunninghame Graham
(1979 Paul Harris Publishing)
Tales of Horsemen
(Edited by Alexander Maitland) (1981 Canongate)
Selected Writings of Cunninghame Graham
(edited by Cedric Watts) (1981 Assoc Univ Presses)
The Scottish Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham
(1982 Scottish Academic Press)
The North American Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham
(1986 Scot Acad Press)

READING
Leslie Chaundy : A Bibliography of the First edition of the Works of R B Cunninghame Graham
(1924 Dulan) - Ltd Ed 500
Herbert Faulkner West : Robert Bontine Cunnighame Graham - His Life and Works
(1932 Cranley & Day)
A F Tschiffely : Don Roberto - The Life & Works of R B Cunninghame-Graham 1852-1936
(1937 Heinemann)
Herbert Faulkner West : The Herbert Faulkner West Collection of R B Cunninghame Graham
(1938 PP)
Hugh McDiarmid : Cunninghame Graham - A Centenary Study
(1952 Caledonian Press)
A F Tschiffely : Tornado Cavalier
(1955 Harrap)
Cedric Watts & Laurence Davies : Cunninghame Graham - A Critical Biography
(1979 Cambridge)
John Walker : Cunninghame Graham and Scotland : An Annotated Bibliography
(1980 D P Mack, Dollar)
Alexander Maitland : Robert and Gabriela Cunninghame Graham
(1983 Blackwood)