A Name for Himself

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<i>"Twelve months in any place, my friend, is quite a weary while And seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle "</i><p>So wrote Thomas Raddall at the age of eighteen, not dreaming that many years later Sable Island that "hell on earth" would provide a romantic background for one of his greatest novels, The Nymph and the Lamp.</p><p>Traumatized by the horror of the great Halifax Explosion of 1917, followed in a few months by the death of his father in battle overseas, Tom was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen.</p><p>This brief account of his life tells of his early adventures and of how he became one of Canadas most renowned storytellers.</p>

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<p>Joyce Barkhouse, the biographer, shares Thomas Raddall's love of romantic history and of her native Nova Scotia.</p>

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