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Henry Major Tomlinson (21 June 1873 – 5 February 1958) was a British writer, novelist, journalist, and essayist. He was known for his travel literature, maritime essays, novels and anti-war works, and was widely admired during the interwar period for the quality of his prose style. His 1912 work The Sea and the Jungle became regarded as a classic of English travel literature, and his debut novel Gallions Reach (1927) won the Femina Vie Heureuze Prize in 1929.