Gordon MacCreagh

Who is Gordon MacCreagh?

Gordon MacCreagh was born in Perth, Indiana. MacCreagh studied in Scotland and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Mistakenly believed he had killed a fellow student in a German sabre duel, he fled to Southeast Asia, where he lived for several years. He wrote several short adventure stories for magazines such as Argosy, Adventure and Short Stories. He travelled in South America on the Mulford Expedition. His book White Waters and Black published 1926 is an account of it.

He also travelled to Abyssinia with his wife in 1927, on an expedition to locate the Ark of the Covenant. His account was serialised in Adventure and published as a book The Last of Free Africa. After the book's publication, MacCreagh was made a "Knight of the Empire" by Emperor Haile Selassie.