Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 – January 17, 1964) was an English writer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई, IPA: ), formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, the most populous city of India, and by some measures the most populous city in the world with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006). ...

After graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in English, he spent some time teaching at Stowe, before becoming a full-time writer. He was interested in hunting, flying, hawking and fishing. He was an intensely-involved naturalist, which influenced many of the chapters in The Sword in the Stone. He learned to fly to conquer his fear of heights. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, White moved to Ireland where he lived out the duration as a conscientious objector. It was in Ireland that he wrote most of what would later become The Once and Future King, having read and loved Le Morte d'Arthur years earlier. His indirect experience of the war had a profound effect on the book, which includes commentaries on war and human nature in the form of a heroic narrative. Full name The Queens College of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard in the University of Cambridge Motto Floreat Domus May this House Flourish Named after - Previous names - Established 1448 Sister College(s) Pembroke College President Lord Eatwell Location Silver Street Undergraduates 490 Postgraduates 270 Homepage Boatclub The Gatehouse, as... The south or garden front of Stowe from Jones Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen (1819). ... Hunter and Huntress redirect here. ... This article concerns the process of flying. ... // Flying a Saker Falcon Falconry or hawking is the art or sport involving raptors (birds of prey) to hunt or pursue game. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Once and Future King The Once and Future King is an Arthurian fantasy novel written by T.H. White. ... The Last Sleep of Arthur by Edward Burne-Jones Le Morte dArthur (spelt Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort dArthur, the death of Arthur) is Sir Thomas Malorys compilation of some French and English Arthurian...

White is most famous for writing The Once and Future King, a sequence of novels that retell Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, reinterpreting the legend of King Arthur. The sequence includes: Sir Thomas Malory (c. ... A bronze Arthur in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield wearing Kastenbrust armour (early 15th century) by Peter Vischer, typical of later anachronistic depictions of Arthur. ...

• The Sword in the Stone (1938)
• The Queen of Air and Darkness, originally titled The Witch in the Wood (1939)
• The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
• The Candle in the Wind (1958)
• The Book of Merlyn (published separately and posthumously, 1977)

The Broadway musical Camelot was based on The Once and Future King, as was the animated film The Sword in the Stone. Wikibooks has more about this subject: The Sword in the Stone This article is about the novel. ... Sir Lancelot is the main protagonist of The Ill-Made Knight. ... The Book of Merlyn is an Arthurian fantasy book written by T. H. White. ... The musical, Camelot, was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and is loosely based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... The Sword in the Stone is the eighteenth full-length animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ...

White wrote many other books, some under a pseudonym. They include a children's book, Mistress Masham's Repose, in which a young girl discovers a group of Lilliputians (the tiny people in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) living near her house. Also for children was The Master, set on Rockall. Other works include: Lilliput has several meanings: In Jonathan Swifts satirical novel, Gullivers Travels, the land of Lilliput was occupied by very small people. ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. ... First Edition of Gullivers Travels Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ... Rockall, a small, isolated rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean Rockall is a small, rocky islet in the North Atlantic, in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United Kingdom. ...

• The Elephant and the Kangaroo, a novel about a repetition of Noah's Flood occurring in Ireland;
• The Goshawk, an account of White's attempt to train a hawk in the traditional art of falconry;
• The Godstone and the Blackymor, a travel book set in Ireland;
• England Have My Bones, an account of a year spent in England; and
• The Age of Scandal and The Scandalmonger, collections of essays on 18th-century England.

White also translated and edited The Book of Beasts, an English translation of a medieval bestiary from Latin.

He died aboard ship in Piraeus (Athens, Greece) while returning home to Alderney from his American lecture tour. HELLO!!! View of Piraeus A night ferry about to leave the port of Piraeus for the Dodecanese Piraeus, or Peiraeus (Modern Greek: Πειραιάς Peiraiás or Pireás, Ancient Greek / Katharevousa: Πειραιεύς Pireéfs) is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, located south of Athens. ... For other uses, see Athens (disambiguation). ...

Sources

• Sylvia Townsend Warner, T.H. White.

Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English writer and poet who lived from 1893 - 1978. ...

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• "England have my bones" — the T.H. White website
• White's 1954 translation of a 12th-century bestiary.