George Augustas Sala biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of George Augustas Sala

Author Name:

George Augustas Sala

Born As:

George Augustus Henry Sala

Other Names:

Born:

24 Nov 1828

Died:

08 Dec 1895




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Selected Works:

A Journey Due North, Being Notes of a Residence in Russia - 1858
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous - 1863
My Diary in America in the Midst of War - 1865
A Trip to Barbary by a Roundabout Route - 1866
America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific - 1882
The Mysteries of Verbena House - 1882                          
                          
                          
When on a  visit to Australia in 1885, George Sala coined the phrase "Marvellous Melbourne" to describe the booming city of Melbourne, a phrase which stuck with the locals and is still used to this day.