Ian Cameron

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Ian Cameron (actually Donald Gordon Payne ; born January 3, 1924 in London ; died August 22, 2018 in Redhill , Surrey ), also known under the pseudonyms James Vance Marshall and Donald Gordon , was a British writer . He lived in Surrey, England and had four sons and a daughter.

As James Vance Marshall, Payne has published books such as A River Ran Out of Eden (1962) and White-Out (1999). His most famous book is Walkabout , first published in 1959. As Ian Cameron he published The Lost (1961), later dramatized by Disney as an island at the end of the world , and The Mountain at the Bottom of the World and The White Ship (1975).

bibliography

The Lost Ones (series of novels; as Ian Cameron)
  • 1 The Lost Ones (1961; also: Island at the Top of the World , 1974)
    • German: The Lost: Report of an Expedition. Translated by Waldemar Kabus. Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1971, DNB 720003253 . Also as: Island at the end of the world: report of an expedition. Translated by Waldemar Kabus. Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-8004-0816-3 .
  • 2 The Mountains at the Bottom of the World (1972; also: Devil Country , 1976)
    • English: The monsters of the Sierra Moreno. Translated by Bernd Lutz. Goverts / Krüger / Stahlberg, 1973, ISBN 3-7740-0437-4 .
Individual publications
  • Dorset Harbors (1953; as Donald Payne)
  • The Midnight Sea (1958; as Ian Cameron)
  • Red Duster, White Ensign: the Story of Malta and the Malta Convoys (1959; as Ian Cameron)
  • The Children (1959; Also as: Walkabout ; as James Vance Marshall)
    • German as James Vance Marshall: Die Kinder. Translated by Ilse von Laer. Schwabenverlag, Stuttgart 1961, DNB 453227848 .
  • A River Ran Out of Eden (1962; as James Vance Marshall)
    • German: A stranger came to Unimak. Translated by Johanna Thomas. Krüger, Hamburg 1964, DNB 453227864 .
  • Star Raker (1962; as Donald Gordon)
    • German: Stars at noon: The fatal tests with Star-Raker 1. Translated by Friedrich Kaufmann and Margit Davids. Wunderlich, Tübingen 1962, DNB 451617754 .
  • Wings of the Morning (1962; as Ian Cameron)
  • Flight of the Bat (1963; as Donald Gordon)
    • English: Flight of fate to Moscow. Translated by Max Bentele. A. Müller, Rüschlikon-Zurich, Stuttgart and Vienna 1966, DNB 456784748 .
  • Lodestone and Evening Star: the Epic Voyages of Discovery 1493BC-1896AD (1965; as Ian Cameron)
    • English: You Sailed To The Evening Star: A History Of The First Discoveries. Translated by Margaret Carroux . Goverts, Stuttgart 1968, DNB 456249559 .
  • My Boy John That Went to Sea (1966; as James Vance Marshall)
    • German as James Vance Marshall: When the Blue Whale Sings. Translated by Eleonora Meyer-Grünewald. Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1968, DNB 457512458 . Also as: When the blue whale sings. Translated by Karl Berisch. Ullstein # 39162, Frankfurt / M. and Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-39162-1 .
  • The Golden Oyster (1967; as Donald Gordon)
  • A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime (1970; as James Vance Marshall)
    • German: On the way to the dream mountains. Translated by Elisabeth Klein. Benziger, Zurich, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-545-32080-4 .
  • Leap in the Dark (1970; as Donald Gordon)
    • German as Donald Gordon: Emergency landing in no man's land: adventure novel. Translated by Hans-Ulrich Nichau. Goldmann adventure paperbacks #A 49, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-442-24049-2 .
  • The Impossible Dream (1971; as Ian Cameron)
  • The Wind at Morning (1973; as James Vance Marshall)
    • German as James Vance Marshall: Storm at Dawn. Translated by Götz Pommer. Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-8004-0821-X .
  • Antarctica: The Last Continent (1974; as Ian Cameron)
  • Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the World (1974; as Ian Cameron)
    • English: Magellan and the first circumnavigation. Foreword by Vivian Fuchs. Translated by Elisabeth Kühne. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-7653-0290-2 .
  • The White Ship (1975; as Ian Cameron)
  • The Young Eagles (1979; as Ian Cameron)
  • To the Farthest Ends of the Earth (1980; as Ian Cameron)
  • Still Waters (1982; as James Vance Marshall)
  • Exploring Africa (1984; as Ian Cameron)
  • Exploring Antarctica (1984; as Ian Cameron)
  • Mountains of the Gods: The Himalayas and the Mountains of Central Asia (1984; as Ian Cameron)
  • Exploring Australia (1985; as Ian Cameron)
  • Exploring the Himalayas (1985; as Ian Cameron)
  • Lost Paradise: The Exploration of the Pacific (1987; as Ian Cameron)
  • Kingdom of the Sun God: A History of the Andes (1989; as Ian Cameron)
  • Explorers and Exploration (1991; as Ian Cameron)
  • White-Out (1999; as James Vance Marshall)
    • German as Ian Cameron: Through Eternal Ice. James Vance Marshall. Translated by Jerry Hofer. Goldmann # 44695, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-44695-3 .
  • Riders of the Storm: The Story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (2002; as Ian Cameron)
Collections
  • Stories from the Billabong (2008; with Francis Firebrace; as James Vance Marshall)
  • How Turtle Got His Shell and Other Stories (2013; also as: More stories from the Billabong ; with Francis Firebrace; as James Vance Marshall)

Film adaptations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author of Walkabout who preferred anonymity
personal data
SURNAME Cameron, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Payne, Donald Gordon (real name); Payne, Donald G. (alternative spelling); Marshall, James Vance (pen name); Gordon, Donald (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2018
Place of death Surrey