Brown, Alfred Samler

Alfred Samler Brown (1859-1936) was a travel guide writer, specialising in the Macaronesian Islands. He was greatly devoted to the Canary Islands,  where he lived and was responsible for expanding British tourism to the archipelago through his popular guidebook, Madeira and the Canary Islands^[1257],  which ran to fourteen editions before his death.

As far as I can ascertain, the first edition of Brown’s book was published in 1890, a few years after Donnelly‘s Atlantis was launched and its conclusions seem to have prompted Brown to consider the possibility of a connection with the Canaries, without actually endorsing the idea. He offers very little to Atlantology, with outdated geology and racist views.