Stephen Jared
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I may have posted about this once before. Forgive my old age. 44 now!
Anyway, I couldn't resist a couple mentionings: The Lost City of Z is fantastic if anyone hasn't read it. The original Lost World is great, I agree. Lost City of Z details much of the life of Percy Fawcett. I know, he's a character from an Indy novel! He also (I'm sure many of you know this) was one of the biggest inspirations on Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Doyle knew him and used to sit in on his lectures at the Royal Geographic Society and that's how his imagination was sparked for a South American adventure into the unknown.
I see no one mentioned King of the Khyber Rifles. Great great book, and totally different from both films based on the book.
Also, lately I've been reading the Ian Fleming James Bond novels and they're just terrific. I had never read any of them. Had no idea what I was missing. I know, you might call them spy novels rather than adventures, but they're adventures to me.
Anyway, I couldn't resist a couple mentionings: The Lost City of Z is fantastic if anyone hasn't read it. The original Lost World is great, I agree. Lost City of Z details much of the life of Percy Fawcett. I know, he's a character from an Indy novel! He also (I'm sure many of you know this) was one of the biggest inspirations on Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Doyle knew him and used to sit in on his lectures at the Royal Geographic Society and that's how his imagination was sparked for a South American adventure into the unknown.
I see no one mentioned King of the Khyber Rifles. Great great book, and totally different from both films based on the book.
Also, lately I've been reading the Ian Fleming James Bond novels and they're just terrific. I had never read any of them. Had no idea what I was missing. I know, you might call them spy novels rather than adventures, but they're adventures to me.