Levkas Man (2016)
“It has, in fact, been gradually taking shape in my mind over the years, and during that time a number of quite unrelated experiences have contributed to its growth. The first of these occurred more than a decade ago when F. T. Smith, then my editor at Collins, in a mood of great excitement, talked to me for over an hour about the astonishing discoveries made by a Dr Leakey in Africa. From that moment I became fascinated by the search for the origins of our species.
In 1963 my father died and th...e sad experience of going through his home and dealing with the relics of a lifetime was one that I felt many people must have suffered. That same year my wife and I had sailed our boat down to Malta with the object of exploring the Eastern Mediterranean. Two years later, knowing of my interest in early man and that we were planning to sail in the Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece, Alfred Knopf, my American publisher, sent me a cutting from the Christian Science Monitor about a cave-shelter discovered by a Cambridge palæontologist, E.MoreLess
In 1963 my father died and th...e sad experience of going through his home and dealing with the relics of a lifetime was one that I felt many people must have suffered. That same year my wife and I had sailed our boat down to Malta with the object of exploring the Eastern Mediterranean. Two years later, knowing of my interest in early man and that we were planning to sail in the Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece, Alfred Knopf, my American publisher, sent me a cutting from the Christian Science Monitor about a cave-shelter discovered by a Cambridge palæontologist, E.MoreLess
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