Everard And Who?

A twentieth century American arrives in a past period. A cliched sf idea? Twain and de Camp already did it? But Poul Anderson does a lot more with it:

Manse Everard, newly recruited to the Time Patrol, arrives at the Academy in the Oligocene;

Tom Namura watches the Atlantic pouring into the Mediterranean;

Carl Farness spends time with four generations of Goths;

a juvenile protagonist encounters and even inspires Pithecanthropus;

Military Policeman Sergeant Gerald Robbins, US Army, struck by lightning, arrives on a beach in Iceland in AD 998.

The title of this post is intended first to remind readers that Everard is by no means Anderson's only time traveling character, even within the Time Patrol series, and secondly to refer ironically to the second most prominent British fictional time traveler.