Biddle (Anthony J. Drexel)
American author of books on Madeira which the Elucidário condemns as full of errors and absurdities.
Works: The Madeira Island, London, 1900, 2 vols.; The island of the Wine, Philadelphia and San Francisco, 1901, 2 vols.
We have not read the first of these works, but the second is particularly curious for the series of errors and absurdities it contains. If Mr Biddle, who styles himself a member of three American scientific associations, had also belonged to one of the many temperance societies of his country, he might perhaps have produced a more honest and accurate work than the one he dared to publish about our island.
The first edition of the book The Madeira Island was published in the city of Philadelphia in 1896 and contains the same errors and absurdities as the second edition, which dates from 1900.
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- London
United Kingdom. Place of the 1900 edition.
The British capital, the place of publication of many English works on Madeira, including those of the du Canes, Embleton and Bloxam. Mason compared its humidity with Funchal's, and artillery for the Fortress of São Tiago came from there. It hosted the 1909 applied chemistry congress.
- Philadelphia
United States. Place of first publication of The Madeira Island.
Filadélfia (Philadelphia) is the city where Biddle's The Madeira Island was first published and where Mac Euen was born. It was also the site of a penitentiary described by Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos and the home city of the architects who won the competition for the Funchal town hall (Paços do Concelho).
- San Francisco
United States. Co-publication place of The Island of the Wine.
Co-publication place of The Island of the Wine.
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American author of 'The Madeira Island' and 'The Island of the Wine', criticised by the Elucidário for errors.