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Verrill, Alpheus (1871 - 1954)
Genre: General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction - Scholarly
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill was born in New Haven, CT, atended Hopkins Grammar School, the Yale School of Fine Arts and studied zoology and geology at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School. He illustrated the natural history section of Webster's International Dictionary in 1896 and the Clarendon Dictionary. He traveled the globe, living in Dominica, British Guiana and Panama.
Selected Bibliography
- Old Civilizations of the New World (1929)
- Barton's Mills: A Saga of the Pioneers (1932)
- Romantic and Historic Maine (1933)
- Along New England Shores (1936)
- The Real Americans (1954)
- The American Indian: North, South and Central America (2001)
