Robert Cunninghame Graham

Cunninghame Graham 1890

Cunninghame Graham in disguise to ride through Morocco in 1897

Chunninghame Grahams caricature by Spy from the Vanity Fair 1888

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (born May 24, 1852 in London , † March 20, 1936 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ; also Roberto Bontine Cunninghame Graham ), nicknamed Don Roberto , was a Scottish-Spanish aristocrat , socialist politician and adventurer.

Graham worked closely with Friedrich Engels and was one of the first socialist MPs in the British House of Commons . Graham participated in several revolutions in Latin America. He advised his friend Joseph Conrad on the creation of the novel Nostromo .

He recorded his adventurous travels in several novels and stories. According to the Long Riders' Guild Press, his novel Vanished Arcadia inspired the 1986 film Mission (original title The Mission ).

literature

Own works

Excerpt from the works of Cunninghame Graham (partly in English reprints):

• RB Cunninghame Graham: The Ipané. T. Fisher Unwin., 1899.
• RB Cunninghame Graham: Hope . Duckworth & Co. 1910.
• RB Cunninghame Graham: Conquest of New Grenada. Being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez De Quesada . Cooper Square Pub, 1922. ISBN 0-8154-0086-1
• RB Cunninghame Graham: Pedro de Valdivia, conqueror of Chile . Harper & Brothers 1927.
• R. B Cunninghame Graham: Mogreb-El-Acksa. A Journey in Morocco . Long Riders' Guild Press, 2004. ISBN 1590481771
• RB Cunninghame Graham, Jean Cunninghame Graham: Horses of the Conquest: A Study of the Steeds of the Spanish Conquistadors . Long Riders' Guild Press, 2004. ISBN 1590481755
• RB Cunninghame Graham, Jean Cunninghame Graham: Tales Of Horsemen. Saddle Stories from Around the World. Long Riders' Guild Press, 2004. ISBN 1-59048-176-3
• RB Cunninghame Graham, Jean Cunninghame Graham: Vanished Arcadia. Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767. London 9101, Long Riders' Guild Press, 2005. ISBN 1-59048-180-1
• RB Cunninghame Graham, Aime Tschiffely: Rodeo: Travelers' Tales Collected By The Great Horseman . Long Riders' Guild Press, 2004. ISBN 1-59048-178-X

Secondary literature

• Robert Cunninghame Graham . In: Der Wahre Jacob No. 103 of July 5, 1890, p. 816 digitized
• Cedric Watts: Cunninghame Graham. A critical biography. Cambridge 1979. ISBN 0-521-22467-5
• Jane Cunninghame Graham, Murray Grigor: Gaucho Laird. The Life of RB Don Roberto Cunninghame Graham . Long Riders' Guild Press, 2005. ISBN 1-59048-179-8

Web links

• Scotsman newspaper: Great Scots - The extraordinary life of the Gaucho Laird
• The Cunninghame Graham Collection
• First Foot - Cunninghame-Graham
• Los Caballos de la Conquista - Robert Cunninghame Graham
• Oxford Book of English Verse - Robert Cunninghame Graham - If Doughty Deeds
• Robert Cunninghame-Graham by Raymond Vettese
• Slainte: Information & Libraries Scotland - Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham ( Memento of August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Canning House - RB Cunninghame Graham ( Memento of October 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

swell

1. ^ The Cunninghame Graham Collection (accessed April 16, 2007)