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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
I can remember my surprise as a 12-year-old, reading King Solomon's Mines for the first time, when I got to the start of the trek and the adventurers were setting off on foot. I was staggered. What about trucks, Jeeps, helicopters? I looked at the copyright date in the front; aha! Now knowing the era, I dived back into the book, happy.
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Wasn't the "Author's Note", dated "1898", right on the very first page of the book, a bit of a giveaway?