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Aleko Axel August Eugen Lilius, (2 April 1890 in Saint Petersburg, Russia – 24 June 1977 in Helsinki, Finland 〔One source, the ( Explorers Club membership list ) has 1950 for the date of death.〕) was an explorer, free-lance writer and photographer, variously described as an “English journalist,” “Russian-Finnish,” “an English writer of Finnish origins,” “a United States citizen of Finnish origin,” a “Swedish journalist and adventurer,” and an “intrepid American journalist.” He was also a convicted fraudster. 〔The Straits Times, 23 September 1929, Page 13 http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19290923-1.2.80.aspx〕A lawsuit involving Lilius in the Philippines in 1934 〔see http://www.asianlii.org/ph/cases/PHSC/1934/75.html〕 described him thus: Virtually all of Lilius' output as a writer is based on his wide-ranging travels in such places as China, Morocco, and Mexico. The first mention of Lilius as a writer is as the author of the script for the 1919 Finnish film ''Venusta etsimässä eli erään nuoren miehen ihmeelliset seikkailut'' (In search of Venus—or—the Marvelous Adventures of a Young Man). During the 1920s and 30s, Lilius functioned as foreign correspondent in Asia and North Africa. During the 1920s he worked with linguist Rudolf Schuller as a photographer in Mexico. In the 1950s he lived in Morocco. In the 1930s, Lilius lived in the United States, residing in the famous (Armour-Stiner Octagon house ) in Irvington-on-Hudson in the state of New York. In 1958 he moved to Helsinki, Finland, and devoted himself to painting. == I Sailed with Chinese Pirates == Lilius is primarily remembered as the author of ''I Sailed with Chinese Pirates'', an account of the time he spent among pirates of the South China seas. The original review in the ''New York Times'' of 27 July 1931 reads in part: The “mysterious woman pirate chief,” Lai Choi San, is widely believed to be the source inspiration for the character of the Dragon Lady, the oriental ‘’femme fatale’’ in Milton Caniff’s comic strip, ''Terry and the Pirates''. Although Lilius did not use the term “Dragon Lady” in his book—he referred to Lai Choi San as “Queen of the Pirates”— Caniff did, in fact, appropriate the Chinese name for his character. According to one source, this was the cause of a later legal dispute between Lilius and the syndicate that produced the comic strip, Terry and the Pirates.〔()〕 A review of the later (1991) Oxford University Press reprint says that the book is a “ …a good read in the sensational nineteen-twenties style of journalism…briskly moving but somewhat superficial…” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aleko Lilius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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